You may have seen information about the number of deaths or number of people infected by COVID-19. However, how exactly do they get these numbers? One thing that happens when someone dies is that they get a death certificate. This is the main thing that the people use while counting the amount of deaths. The cause of death is also described on the certificate. These gets signed by doctors or other people in charge of it. Autopsy also helps determine whether someone’s cause of death is COVID-19 if they died before a doctor could check them. One big problem that makes the exact number inaccurate is that the definition of a coronavirus death may differ between states. There are people who die with the virus and people who die from the virus. People can die from other diseases while having COVID-19, but does that count as a coronavirus death?
