When evaluating the COVID death toll, it's important to understand that all deaths within 30 days of a positive COVID test are considered COVID deaths unless exclusion criteria are met (trauma, suicide).

Everyone in the hospital or long-term care is tested.

Source: Email from FDOH administrator: "1) If an individual had a positive COVID-19 (antigen, PCR) test after January 19, 2020 and the medical provider signing certificate considers COVID-19 to have contributed to their death months later...

"—it would be considered a COVID-19 death even if past 30 days of testing.

2) All deaths that occur within 30 days of COVID-19 positive result are considered a COVID-19 death—unless one of the exclusion criteria are met (i.e. trauma, suicide)"

This doesn't mean COVID is put on the death certificate of those who just had a previous positive test. It means that they're added to the list of COVID deaths, regardless of what the death certificate says. Doctors are not involved - this is a bureaucratic determination.

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