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Originally Posted by arm79
So if the death is from trauma after running your car into a tree at high speed, are shot or commit suicide for instance while infected with covid its NOT counted as a covid death for statistic purposes.
But in other countries it may be. I think USA count these deaths in their statistics. Or if they aren't anymore they were originally.
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You might be thinking about the UK. Very early on they were doing some "dodgey" counting. If someone died, they looked back through their medical records, and if they had a positive test within 3 weeks from date of death, it was counted as a covid death.
The example that made public headline was, a journo asked a public official that if someone got hit by a bus and died, but had tested positive to covid a week beforehand, would that be in the covid statistics, the answer was yes.
After that they changed their method to be better in line with the WHO guidelines.