This is getting crazy.
On the radio today. A man died in a motorcycle accident yesterday. His doctor said Covid 19 could be the cause and on the death certificate that's what was listed as the riders cause of death. Coronavirus Covid 19.
I can't agree more that this is beyond crazy!!
Some thoughts I have about this particular situation...
Please look this up for yourself, or consult a medical doctor to confirm that this is true....
But, maybe this helps this type of classification of cause of death make sense in a more general way.
I work alongside a team who evaluates Covid patients on a daily basis for "treatment". This topic came up today. What was in question was if a motorcycle rider had Covid symptoms that severely impaired his driving. If he was extremely sick, feverish, dizzy, weak, etc.. but didn't stop himself from driving, medically the sickness
could be the cause of death depending on the injuries sustained from the accident. All of these situations cause/effect are left to the medical examiner to investigate. Each of the conditions/injuries/illness are going to be listed in sequential order on the death certificate. So Covid, could definitely show up on a death certificate if there were contributing factors from this illness that led to a person crashing his motorcycle.
This is similar to any other accident caused by a medical event like a heart attack, stroke, PE... Any of those conditions would be listed as the medical cause of death if the person experienced them while driving, which in turn caused a crash, unless the cause of death was perhaps the accident itself that caused another medical issue, like aortic dissection.
This is also the same for any other condition. A person dies of a gun shot wound to the heart, but the actual medical cause of death for instance is Cardiac Tamponade. (compression of the heart by an accumulation of fluid in the pericardial sac). All of these events would show up on a death certificate as the sequence of events that led to a person's death.
Here is a reference if you would like to look into this more in detail.
https://www.health.state.mn.us/people/vitalrecords/physician-me/docs/capcodbook.pdf
Just a thought. I'm not saying I have any idea of the circumstance you are speaking of since every situation is different.
I also realize that some reporting may be in question as well. Our state of affairs is a hot mess.