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I just want to be clear in terms of the
definition of

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people dying of COVID. So the case definition
is very simplistic.

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It means at the time of death, it was a COVID
positive diagnosis.

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So that means that if you were in hospice and
had already been given, you know, a few weeks

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to live and then you also were found to have
COVID that would be counted as a COVID death.

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It means that if technically if even if you
died of a clear alternate cause but you had

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COVID at the same time it's still listed as a
COVID death.

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So everyone who's listed as a COVID death
doesn't mean that that was the cause of th...

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For example COVID-19 was probably associated
with the death of a person due to a heart ...

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condition shortly after being diagnosed with
COVID-19, even if COVID-19 was not listed ...

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In order to capture most of the deaths
associated with COVID-19, those diagnosed...

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positive PCR test who die within 60 days are
considered COVID associated deaths.