By Emma Colton, includes “… ‘So our method that we use to give up to date counts related to COVID death is not our usual process for how we track data for deaths in Washington,’ Dr. Katie Hutchison, health statistics manager for the Department of Health, said. ‘We had to modify what we normally do in order to quickly meet the data and informational needs of the pandemic. We’re aware that there is some confusion about how this works and whether or not this modified process is accurate.’ …”