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Volume 30, Number 7—July 2024
Research
COVID-19 Death Determination Methods, Minnesota, USA, 2020–20221
Lydia J. Fess
, 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
, 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
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.
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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