Data Manipulation: US State changes the definition of a COVID-19 death

On March 4, 2020 the US CDC changed how death certificates were to be filled in for COVID-19, a manner that would exaggerate death numbers.

Two years later on March 10, 2022 the US Health Department in Massachusetts acknowledge they counted the death of any person who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 as a COVID-related death, regardless of how much time elapsed between those two events.  They have now changed the definition so the death number is 15% lower.

Australians looked to the high COVID-19 death toll in countries like the US as an example of what could happen here!