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:
Please start at the bottom and read up the page.
The black bold type in the last paragraph was posted in the alert.
It is imaged here: