Should “COVID-19” be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?

 

COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. Certifiers should include as much detail as possible basedon their knowledge of the case, medical records, laboratory testing, etc. If the decedent had other chronicconditions such as COPD or asthma that may have also contributed, these conditions can be reported in Part II. (See attached Guidance for Certifying COVID-19 Deaths) (source)

Note that the bolding is in the original.

This is a particularly important and questionable piece of guidance from the CDC.

• Firstly, 'assumed' is not a scientific basis on which to proceed and does not in any way guarantee that an accurate cause of death is recorded.
• 'Assumed' also ultimately 'allows' for manipulation of the death stats.
• 'Assumed' also allows for fraud on death certificates.

Cause of death based upon a proper diagnosis or postmortem is vitally important because cause of death is a legal matter of the greatest consequence. Specifically, death (indirectly) being certified as a result of an epidemic might affect such things as insurance policies given such usual inclusion of Force majeure conditions (i.e. cancellation of contract due to such things as Acts of God and epidemic/pandemic, etc).

I saw an article stating that bodies are also being transferred directly from death bed, to coffin. Again this is extremely irregular and questionable because of it representing a shortcut to existing proper procedure.

Of interest this page lists when and when not a postmortem should be carried out. It also states:

A death in hospital should be reported if:
- there is a question of negligence or misadventure about the treatment of the person who died
- they died before a provisional diagnosis was made and the general practitioner is not willing to certify the cause
- the patient died as the result of the administration of an anaesthetic

However, if a general practitioner is wanting exhibit integrity, given what is openly published about CV19 and its expected low fatality rate - I would think that caution is warranted before certifying cause of death from CV19.