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Reply to "Elephant in the room"

You're first paragraph is accurate, but then you contradict it in the rest of your post. The U07.1 code doesn't go on the death certificate in the motorcycle accident example. That code would be on the patient's chart for documentation, but not the death certificate bc it didn't contribute to the person's death and is not an underlying cause. It is totally unrelated to the death. The death certificate is not a medical record. It doesn't include all of the patient's medical conditions that did not contribute to the death. If the motorcyclist had a heart condition, that wouldn't be on the death certificate either.

I really don't know if COVID deaths have been under-reported or over-reported, and I'm not trying to convince you either way. I'm just trying to explain how COD reporting works, and to correct the erroneous information that you posted as fact.

Huh? Perhaps you missed the point. Once again, the motorcycle reference was in in jest while referring to an earlier post. So if you are going to mention it in a reply you should at least include a few sentences where I mentioned it.

The point is deaths are way overstated which is why we have a country full of deathly-afraid people. Thank god they seem to be out and about only on web forums.

 

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