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Auditor debunks claims of duplicates in Louisiana virus data

by Associated Press
| August 9, 2020 12:03 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's legislative auditor found two rural parishes' claims that the state was double-counting their positive coronavirus tests in the official tally of cases was unfounded, upending theories pushed in conservative circles that the data is being skewed to make the outbreak appear worse than it is.

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