Knox County adds 44 COVID deaths to total after noticing dis

Knox County adds 44 COVID deaths to total after noticing discrepancy


The Knox County Health Department announced Thursday it had added 44 COVID-19 deaths to its rolling pandemic total. The discrepancy can be chalked up to a backlog in information from the Tennessee Health Department and a change in the state's death reporting process.
The update brings the new county total to 593 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic started about a year ago. 
When health department epidemiologists noticed the large discrepancy between the state's death toll for the county and the local count, they raised the issue with the state health department.
The pandemic's winter surge in deaths created a paperwork backlog. 
"There are 44 deaths that we were not originally notified about. All of these deaths occurred in December, January and February when there was, sadly, a large winter surge of COVID-19," said Charity Menefee, Knox County Health Department's director of emergency preparedness. "These deaths were properly investigated by the state medical examiner's office and were counted in the statewide total." 

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