KDHE Secretary Lee Norman shared a COVID case chart with media this week, which he said shows the counties that abided by Governor Kelly’s mask mandate are ‘winning the battle.’ But he deceptively doctored the chart to justify mask mandates.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Norman showed the chart below on the left, comparing 15 counties with mask mandates to the 90 counties that rejected the governor’s order. The Sentinel asked KDHE to provide the names of the counties and the calculations used to produce the chart; they didn’t respond, so we filed an Open Records request. In the meanwhile, we’ve done our best to reproduce the chart, shown below on the right.
The orange lines depict the 7-day rolling average of COVID cases per 100,000 population for the counties that KDHE says have a mask mandate; the blue line represents the counties that don’t have a mandate.
Norman is quoted as saying, “The experimental group is winning the battle,”-- excerpt, rest at link above --
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KDHE doctored a COVID case chart to justify mask mandates
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Sat Aug 08, 2020 12:08 pm
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