New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledged Wednesday that the city's official coronavirus statistics have missed hundreds of people who died at home without ever being tested for the virus, and said the city would start including such victims in its COVID-19 tally.
"The blunt truth is coronavirus is driving these very tragic deaths," de Blasio said on CNN's "New Day." He added, "We're not talking about, you know, 10 people, 20 people. We're talking about something like 100, 200 people per day."
The city's Fire Department has recorded as many as 200 deaths at home daily in recent weeks, far more than the average 25 deaths at home before the pandemic.