NYC COVID-19 death spikes October 21, 2022 and October 26, 2022 due to death certificate review

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Hello all,

The spikes in deaths in New York City on October 21, 2022 (201 deaths) and October 26, 2022 (441 deaths) were due to death certificate review from 2020-2022. This was communicated to us via their health department. The department has completed their review and we do not expect additional backlogged deaths to be published in the coming days.

This is the breakdown by year of death:

2020	2021	2022
393	109	58

Please also see the following announcement on the nychealth GitHub Repository:

Update on October 28, 2022

The Health Department uploaded historical probable deaths among NYC residents recently reported from other jurisdictions. These were cases where COVID was listed on the death certificate but without a corresponding positive lab and took place in 2020, 2021, and early 2022.