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I’ve updated my chronicle of correspondence with the New York City Office of the Medical Examiner to reflect communications through 27 May 2026. (A version of the updated post below was accidentally sent to subscribers this morning before I was finished with it.)

Correspondence with the New York City Office of the Medical Examiner: 1 Feb 2024 – 27 May 2026

I inquired with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene today about a request related to the handling of “probable” COVID deaths in 2020. Any response I receive this week will be posted here and/or in the article below:

New York City department of health denies my request for records that show what it did with “probable” COVID deaths in 2020; I have filed an appeal [UPDATE 11 March 2026]

“The probables” are something I’ve repeatedly spoken about in presentations and interviews, and written about in articles, since April 2023’s The “Covid Deaths” Reckoning. (Earlier, 23 September 2022, in Reconcilable Differences? I made mention of CDC guidance surrounding death counts including both confirmed and probable deaths, but that was more of a contextual mention surrounding the nursing-home resident death data issues, versus a targeted focus on the spring 2020 act of announcing and adding probable COVID deaths.)

Although it wasn’t my first recorded description of telling others about the probables as a potential avenue for all-cause death curve fraud, an interaction with Randall Bock in August 2023 captured one way of framing the problem:

On staged sudden spread, the New York event, and potential data fraud: Excerpts from discussion with Randall Bock on 24 August 2023

See also:

The Probable COVID Deaths: Attempting to get the New York City Health Department to show what they did and how they did it with thousands of deaths reported in spring 2020

And:

Discrepancy and impossible timing involving death numbers cited in NYC Health Commissioner’s 10 April 2020 electronic death-reporting order

A presentation to The Israeli Public Emergency Council for the Covid19 Crisis (PECC) in September 2023 provides a good overview of my orientation toward the fraud question, with mention of “the probables”. (Begin at 1:03:56). See also The F Word.

No one has responded to complaints I filed in February of this year with two federal entities regarding discrepant NYC Health + Hospitals (public hospitals) data.

Complaint against New York City Health + Hospitals filed with PRAC and HHS-OIG (submission date: 3 February 2026)

Fraud or no fraud, the event curve remains unsubstantiated by officials and, when it is addressed, is explained by authorities, media, and most analysts with reasons that defy common sense, are incongruent with authentic contemporaneous experiences and reporting, or are otherwise contradicted by various kinds of qualitative and quantitative evidence.

Finally, there are a number of records I’ve obtained from New York City agencies over the past two years that I have not written about because I see them as pieces in a puzzle best laid aside until other, related pieces are procured or reviewed, or until I undertake the next longer paper on the event.

All NYC-related articles can be found on this page:

New York City Death Spike