How to Certify COVID 19 Deaths

This document is the official word of these agencies of the Government of the United States;

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • National Center for Health Statistics • National Vital Statistics System

It very carefully guides a doctor to a place where he must almost certainly list COVID-19 as the cause of death regardless of co-morbidities. This is the reason for the high number of deaths.

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From the following report;

“However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.”

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