State Has To Make "Correction" To Saturday Daily Status Report

The Georgia Department of Public Health issued a Daily Status Report at 3 p.m. on Saturday eliminating 21 deaths from its cumulative list of deaths attributed to COVID-19.

The result, according to the report, was a drop in the number of deaths in the state from the disease from 2,174 to 2,160 on Saturday.

Three hours later, the Department of Public Health issued a second report, adding back 18 of those 21 eliminated deaths, and reporting that the number of deaths had increased by four from the day before.

The Department of Public Health gave an explanation for the reissued report that belies the changes it actually made to the initial listing of deaths from COVID-19 in the state.

The change and the revision to the list of deaths in the Daily Status Report had no impact on the data for the 10-county Northeast Health District, which includes Oconee and Clarke counties.

No new deaths attributable to COVID-19 were reported in the Northeast Health District either in the initial or corrected Daily Status Report on Saturday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped from 2.7 on Friday to 2.4 on Saturday

The Northeast Health District added only nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19 with the Saturday report, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped from 26.9 on Friday to 23.1 on Saturday.

The Department of Community Affairs did not issue a Long-Term Care Facility report on Saturday, and, as of late on Saturday, the Georgia Emergency Management Agency had not yet released its Situation Report COVID-19 for Saturday.

For more on this story, with details on the “corrections” made in the report on deaths from COVID-19, please go to Oconee County Observations.