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      Posts Make False Claims About COVID-19 Fatality Criteria

      COVID-19 is only listed on a death certificate if it "caused or contributed" to the death.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  9 Jun 2021 2:22 PM IST
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      Posts Make False Claims About COVID-19 Fatality Criteria

      Multiple Facebook posts claim that anyone who dies within 20 days of testing positive for COVID-19 -- whatever the actual cause of death -- will be counted as a coronavirus fatality. The posts also claim that if people die within 24 hours of being vaccinated, the vaccine is not listed as a cause of death. Both claims are false: neither US nor Australian COVID-19 fatality reporting guidelines contain any such criteria; US health authorities told AFP COVID-19 is only listed on a death certificate if it "caused or contributed" to the death; deaths occurring within 24 hours of vaccination are not excluded from COVID-19 fatality reporting, Australia's drug regulator said.

      The claim was published here by an Australia-based Facebook user on May 6, 2021.

      Also Read: Has Sweden Stopped Using RT-PCR Tests For COVID-19? A Fact Check

      A graphic in the post reads: "Funny isn't it, if you die within 20 days of testing positive for the Rona (no matter what other factors were involved) You'll be counted as a COVID death. However, if you drop dead within 24 hours of taking the vaccine it has nothing to do with it."


      A screenshot of the misleading Facebook post as of May 28, 2021.

      More than three million people have died from COVID-19 and more than 171 million COVID-19 cases have been recorded worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic, according to an AFP tally on June 4, 2021.

      More than 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide as of June 3, 2021, according to official sources by the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford.

      Other instances of the claim appear on Facebook here and here.

      However, the claim is false.

      'Caused or contributed to death'

      Robert N. Anderson, chief of the Mortality Statistics Branch at the US National Center for Health Statistics, told AFP: "there are no such criteria for reporting COVID-19 or vaccination on death certificates (on which official statistics are based)."

      "COVID-19 is to be reported on the death certificate only if it caused or contributed to death in some way. A positive test for COVID-19 is not sufficient criteria for reporting, nor is the timing of the death post-test. Similarly, if the vaccine is determined to have caused or contributed to death, it should be reported on the death certificate regardless of the timing."

      Anderson added that physicians, medical examiners and coroners are responsible for determining and reporting the cause of death on death certificates.

      Also Read: Lancet Article Misinterpreted To Claim COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not Work

      An Australian Department of Health spokesperson pointed AFP to COVID-19 national guidelines which do not state there is a 20-day criteria as per the misleading claim.

      "A COVID-19 death is defined for surveillance purposes as a death in a confirmed COVID-19 case, unless there is a clear alternative cause of death that cannot be related to Covid-19 (e.g. trauma)," reads page 37 of the guidelines.

      "Where a Coroner's report is available, these findings are to be observed."

      'No exclusions'

      A spokesperson for Australia's drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), told AFP it "does not exclude deaths that occur within 24 hours of vaccination from its analysis of COVID-19 vaccine safety."

      The TGA said it medical data to identify patterns which indicate a signal for a safety concern.

      "Our investigations aim to determine whether vaccination could be the cause of the adverse event or death. Even when the suspected side effect is serious, it is possible that it may not have been caused by the vaccine. The timing may be coincidental," they added.

      A weekly safety report is published here by the TGA.

      Also Read: US Mask Mandates In Place To Protect Unvaccinated People

      "Apart from the single Australian case in which death was linked to [rare blood clots], COVID-19 vaccines have not been found to cause death," the TGA spokesperson said.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   People who die within 20 days of testing positive for COVID-19 will be counted as a coronavirus fatality in USA and Australia.
      Claimed By :  Posts on Facebook
      Fact Check :  False
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