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26 October
8:02 pm

death certificates were being altered by Colorado Department of Health and Environment to show that people died from COVID instead of from whatever else they died

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Mark Baisley, at Colorado U.S. Senate General Election Debate (Colorado Sun)

8:02 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific allegation that a state government agency was falsifying official death certificates by reclassifying deaths as COVID deaths, which if true or false would materially affect understanding of public health data integrity and government conduct
What we foundThe claim that CDPHE 'altered death certificates' is directly and flatly denied by CDPHE and unsubstantiated by a DA's criminal investigation, though coroners and care facility staff did report that CDPHE's surveillance-based COVID death count overrode physicians' official certificate determinations in some cases.
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