West Virginia’s governor on Wednesday announced 168 deaths involving COVID-19 that have previously gone unreported. Officials learned that 70 facilities across the state had not reported all of the COVID-related deaths at their facilities, Gov. Jim Justice said during a press conference. That included people who died at their homes and died in hospitals. “Now, I promise you this, that this kind of stuff is totally unacceptable to me, and I’ll dig and push our people to dig in every way to get to the very, very bottom of this. I’m really sorry,” Justice, a Republican, said. “It just makes me sick,” he added later. Dr. Ayne Amjad, West Virginia’s top health official, said the state was alerted to the deaths late Friday. Most of the facilities that failed to fully report the deaths are hospitals and nursing homes. A system is in place for facilities to send notice of …
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