Florida officials are no longer publishing the state's coronavirus death data
The Florida Department of Health has withheld the state's coronavirus death data for more than a week,The health department is also preventing Florida's medical examiners from publishing the state's death tally on their own after a discrepancy was found between their count and the department's official count.
The health department told the Times it wanted to revise the data following the discrepancy with medical examiner figures, but did not provide details on "what they plan to remove." A representative for Florida's state health department didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
The state health department was recently in talks with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement about "privacy concerns for the individuals that passed away related to COVID-19," a health department spokesperson told the Times. Unlike the health department's count, the medical examiners' tally does not include names.
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