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Originally Posted by martynpat
I guess I don't understand the focus on death dates. The dead are dead regardless of the date. They dies of COVID. Does saying the data is older make the deaths any less significant? People need to treat the virus as a potentially fatal infection and start doing the things necessary to stop it.
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Dates DO MATTER. By screwing with the dates, they make it appear that there were 120 new deaths on Thursday. That is false information. On Thursday, they reported 120 deaths (that happened over the previous weeks). Reporting them on Thursday is not the same as them happening on Thursday. The headline is designed to mislead the reader. That was the point of the OP.
That's the same as writing: "On Thursday, the NHTSA reported 27,525 automobile deaths". Well, that's a lot of accidents on Thursday ... until you do some research and find that they are reporting a total for the year to date.