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Think about this from the perspective of a scientific observation:
You have a control group and an experimental group.
If New York and New Jersey are doing things that are disproportionately dangerous from a mortality perspective, one would expect a disproportionate increase in the slice of the pie.
From that chart it certainly doesn't look like New York is reporting their nursing home deaths in hospital as nursing home deaths (or Michigan, for that matter), but even if they only counted half of their deaths and we adjusted for that, their percentage would be in line with other states.
Take them to task for their reporting all you want, because public health officials should be as transparent as possible with this information, but even if you double the mortality rate there doesn't appear to be a substantially increased risk.
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