"March 14, 2022: An adjustment was made to COVID Data Tracker’s mortality data involving the removal of 72,277 deaths previously reported across 26 states. An error in CDC's algorithm led to misclassifying deaths that were not COVID-19 related. The algorithm has since been corrected."
Isn't the algorithm just 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + ... i.e. count the number of COVID deaths? I didn't know the death count was determined by an "algorithm."