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Which country are you referring to? Last I checked (few months ago) the CDC in the US was still counting COVID deaths as any deceased with active COVID infection. They are collecting minor comorbidity data, at least that is what they made public in their dataset.

I realize this site has global users but the parent comment was correct. Not sure why he's being downvoted.

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> Last I checked (few months ago) the CDC in the US was still counting COVID deaths as any deceased with active COVID infection.

This is not at all an accurate summary of the CDC’s Cause of Death reporting guidelines for Covid-19: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

If you die in a car accident with Covid-19 in your system, the UCOD is massive trauma from car accident, not “Covid-19”. The CDC reporting guidelines make it clear that Covid only rises to the level of UCOD if it meets the criteria of “ (a) the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death”

That is only regarding death certificates. Some states have rule to report COVID death like this: COVID death certificate plus if tested positive in last 60 days (California just changed to 30 after backclash). And California has only have natural death requirement listed for younger that 18. It is interesting these rules are only in dem states.

So I bet that California has overreported number of deaths while Florida has underreported.

I also did not believe this.

> Some states have rule to report COVID death like this

The claim was specifically about CDC reporting rules, not the rules of how individual states report statistics themselves (which the CDC has no control over).

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