Florida House report, speaker’s memo challenge state COVID death stats

The report looked at 13,920 reported deaths as of Sept. 23, and found that 11,460 listed COVID-19 as the underlying cause, or 82%. Another 1,204 listed COVID-19 as one factor that caused the death, but not the underlying cause; and 1,254 others listed COVID-19 as a contributing factor that made the death more likely but wasn’t the cause of death.