In the summer of 2021, the Documenting COVID-19 project published an article with The Kansas City Star about an elected coroner in Macon County, Missouri, who told us he routinely went against CDC guidance and wrote down causes of death that excluded COVID-19 if it “pleases the family.” The story went viral, and was picked up by multiple national outlets. After the story was published, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health reached out to our team to say that he had ...
