I never put this in Chat, but one of the concepts of death I want people to consider -- Someone has a heart attack while driving. They crash their car. They die. Did they die from the heart attack or the car crash? Is this person's cause of death heart disease, or accident? How do we keep statistics as accurate as possible? There's no right or wrong answer, it's simply a though-experiment to ponder.

Not sure if this is true in all states but in my state, if someone has a heart attack while driving and and crash their car, the crash is not considered a fatal car crash if they are determined to have died from the heart attack and not the crash. That is, unless someone else dies in the accident. So this part about is the cause of death COVID-19 or whatever had the person in hospice in the first place, while being news, is not particularly surprising now that I think about it.

I didn't realize that there was no CDC definition yet. So as far as you know your region is using the CSTE standard but I wonder how widespread the adoption of that standard is, or if there are other, competing standards, and if so, what the differences might be.

That whole thing with the tests and EUA labs... wow. This is going to be a mess for awhile, isn't it?