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LOS ANGELES — California has surpassed 50,000 COVID-19 deaths, a tally that came as Los Angeles County reported a backlog of more than 800 deaths over the autumn and winter
How were the additional deaths found?
The backlog of 806 new COVID-19 deaths in L.A. County, most of which occurred in December and January, was discovered following extensive checks of death records, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Wednesday.
“This was a period, as you all know, where very many deaths occurred across the county. And not all of them were reported to [the Department of] Public Health because of the volume of records.”
The county typically identifies COVID-19 deaths by daily reports from healthcare providers. But the county also does an audit of the causes of death listed on death certificates. That audit is how the additional deaths were found, Ferrer said.
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