# When is a Covid-19 death NOT a Covid-19 death?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-a-covid-19-death-not-a-covid-19-death/851203 "2020-04-06T17:08:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-a-covid-19-death-not-a-covid-19-death/851203/7 "2020-04-06T21:49:41Z")

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Right now if a person dies of something but they test their blood and find their are positive, I think they might list the cause as the virus even though it wasnt the cause.

For example [THIS](https://www.wgal.com/article/7-week-old-baby-in-connecticut-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-dies/32019329#) case in Connecticut an infant died from another cause, maybe trauma or abuse, but is officially listed as Covid 19 due to the baby having it.

And another question is if they are say 78 and die and had an underlying problem like maybe cancer, could they just as well have died just from an ordinary flu?

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