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CDC said doctors can "assume" COVID-19 as cause of death on certificates

Steven Schwartz (above), Director of CDC Vital Statistics

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/newsletter/nvss-newsletter-february-2020-508.pdf

Without testing positive.

Source is the Center for Disease Control (CDC)’s one-page alert dated March 24th.

It is linked here:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf

Please start at the bottom and read up the page.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf

The black bold type in the last paragraph was posted in the alert.

It is imaged here: