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No, because people die every day and no tests are run if they had the virus.
by jacobush 7y ago
No, because people die every day and no tests are run if they had the virus.
- arcticbull 7y agoAnd indeed they can be counted as COVID deaths if they had respiratory illnesses because the CDC direction is to count any suspicion of COVID or the contribution thereof as a COVID death. [1] [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-I...