Legislative audit shows substantial increase in statewide de

Legislative audit shows substantial increase in statewide deaths to COVID
Joseph Hennessy
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Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit meeting. (June 29, 2021)
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - COVID-19 accounted for more than 35% of all deaths in the state from September 1, 2020 to the end of the year.
The numbers are in a Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit revealed Tuesday morning.
“From even 2019 to 2020, those causes of death numbers were very similar and then COVID-19 was additional deaths, so there was this addition of just under 3,000 deaths,” said Macie Smith, Auditor for the Kansas Legislative Div. of Post Audit.
The post-audit division shows the leading causes of death in the state over the last four months of 2019 and 2020 were largely unchanged -- heart disease, cancerous tumors and chronic lower respiratory diseases. Except in 2020, when COVID-19 surpassed them all. The 2,608 COVID 19 deaths account for 78% of the overall increase in deaths year to year.

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