New Releases: Final Guidance and Provisional Death Counts

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• Description:
  The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released final guidance to help with filling out death certificates for deaths related to COVID-19. Note that corrections have been made to this guidance, so please ensure you are using the most recent version. ; NCHS will begin posting provisional counts of deaths related to COVID-19 this Friday. National provisional counts include deaths occurring within the 50 states and the District of Columbia that have been received and coded by NCHS as of the date specified. ; Provisional counts for COVID-19 deaths are based on a current flow of mortality data in the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), and will include: ; • A weekly provisional count of deaths in the United States due to COVID-19 ; • A provisional count of deaths from all causes ; • Percent of previous year’s deaths (the number of deaths received compared to the number of deaths expected based on data from previous years) ; • Pneumonia deaths (excluding pneumonia deaths involving influenza) ; Alert-3-Final-COVID-19-Guidance-and-Provisional-Death-Counts.pdf
• Subjects:
  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus Infections
  • International Classification of Diseases
  • Terminology As Topic
• Series:
  COVID-19 Alert
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Issue:
  3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/86589/cdc_86589_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 112.67 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
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