10-25-2020, 02:24 PM
Deaths due to COVID-19 are all the deaths that happen where the patient would have continued to be alive but for the fact that they got COVID-19. In that case, a patient with cancer (even one with a poor prognosis) who contracts COVID-19 and dies because of respiratory failure due to COVID is considered a COVID death.
The motorcycle accident would be conisdered a death where COVID-19 is not the primary cause.
I've posted it before, but here's the standard CDC death certificate:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/death1...al-acc.pdf
If COVID-19 is in question 32, Part I, then it would be considered a cause of death.
If COVID-19 is in Question 32, Part II, then it would not be considered a cause of death.
BC
The motorcycle accident would be conisdered a death where COVID-19 is not the primary cause.
I've posted it before, but here's the standard CDC death certificate:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/death1...al-acc.pdf
If COVID-19 is in question 32, Part I, then it would be considered a cause of death.
If COVID-19 is in Question 32, Part II, then it would not be considered a cause of death.
BC