ORLANDO, Fla. – News 6 has discovered a discrepancy in coronavirus-related deaths reported in Florida. Investigator Louis Bolden dug into the numbers and found the state of Florida has a different number of deaths than many of the state’s medical examiners.
Previously, the state blocked medical examiners from releasing their numbers. Bolden took that information and ran it through News 6′s trust index, which fact checks questionable information circulating on social media and in our communities. [TRUST INDEX: See a questionable claim on social media?
Share it with the Trust Index fact-checking team] According to the Florida Department of Health’s coronavirus dashboard, COVID-19 has claimed more than 2,200 lives in the state of Florida.