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Volume 30, Number 7—July 2024
Research

COVID-19 Death Determination Methods, Minnesota, USA, 2020–20221

Lydia J. FessComments to Author , Ashley Fell, Siobhan O’Toole, Paige D’Heilly, Stacy Holzbauer, Leslie Kollmann, Amanda Markelz, Keeley Morris, Abbey Ruhland, Scott Seys, Elizabeth Schiffman, Haley Wienkes, Zachary Zirnhelt, Stephanie Meyer, and Kathryn Como-Sabetti
Author affiliations: Minnesota Department of Health, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA (L.J. Fess, A. Fell, S. O’Toole, P. D’Heilly, S. Holzbauer, L. Kollmann, A. Markelz, K. Morris, A. Ruhland, S. Seys, E. Schiffman, H. Wienkes, Z. Zirnhelt, S. Meyer, K. Como-Sabetti); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S. Holzbauer)

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Table 3

COVID-19 inclusion on the death certificate and the MDH case definition of COVID-19 mortality, March 19, 2020–December 31, 2022

COVID-19 inclusion status Confirmed COVID-19 death using MDH COVID-19 mortality case definition Non–COVID-19 death Total
“COVID-19” on death certificate (death certificate comparison method) 13,108 413 13,521
“COVID-19” not on death certificate 483 0 483
Total 13,591 413 14,004

*MDH, Minnesota Department of Health.

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1Preliminary results from this analysis were presented at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists annual conference; 2023 Jun 25–29; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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