Should cause of death be a family choice - COVID
 

A recent article looks at a coroner that is honoring families' requests to exclude probable cause of COVID from death certificates.

Should the coroner be allowed to do that? We have seen numerous complaints here about overcounting CIVD deaths, now it seems there is undercounting happening also...

Coroner in Missouri county keeps COVID off of death certificates | The Kansas City Star

Missouri county coroner removed covid from death certificates to ‘please’ grieving families

For most deaths, the coroner does not prepare the death certificate, and there is no autopsy. So, the cause of death is often not much more than an educated guess.

In the U.S.overall, I think that COVID deaths are being overreported, not underreported.

Dead is dead! What real difference does it make?

For one thing, the CARES Act provides additional Medicare and other funding to hospitals to treat COVID patients. So, there is a financial incentive to overreport the number of COVID patients.

Scare tactics are less effective.

There is a book about this topic
 

Amazon.com

when everybody is a customer to be pleased in fear of job loss from complaints and everyone has associated knowledge belief from sample size 1 and google.

You mean most hospitals are acting like Rick Scott did with Medicare? ;-)