AFENET COVID-19 at a Glance # 136

Published on March 31, 2021

AFENET COVID-19 at a Glance Issue #136 is now available

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AFENET COVID-19 at a Glance # 135

March 29, 2021
AFENET COVID-19 at a Glance Issue # 135

EARLY RELEASE: Death Certificate-Based ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes for COVID-19 Mortality Surveillance - United States, January-December 2020

March 31, 2021
Among 378,048 death certificates from 2020 listing COVID-19 as a cause of death, 5.5% listed COVID-19 without codes for any other conditions. Among 357,133 death certificates with at least one other diagnosis, 97% had a co-occurring diagnosis of a plausible chain-of-event condition, a significant contributing condition, or both.