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Florida — home of UFC’s next three events — is suppressing COVID-19 death data

Florida — home of the UFC’s next three shows, as well as weekly WWE tapings — has been suppressing COVID-19 death data being compiled by medical examiners.

State officials have stopped releasing the list of coronavirus-related deaths gathered by medical examiners, which at times was 10 percent higher than than the figure released by the Florida Department of Health.

The news was first reported by Tampa Bay Times, which added that the data has now been withheld for more than nine days. State officials have not provided any more information, though one medical examiner claimed that officials planned to remove causes of death and case descriptions, which would render the list “meaningless.