China's chicanery continues as doctors told not to cite Covid on death certificates – Firstpost
FirstpostBeijing: Doctors in China have been instructed not to write Covid-induced respiratory failure on death certificates. Six doctors from public hospitals across China told Reuters that they have received similar oral instructions which discourage them to put Covid as the cause of death on certificates. “We have stopped classifying COVID deaths since the reopening in December,” a doctor at a large public hospital in Shanghai said. A senior emergency room doctor in Shandong province said that while doctors have been mentioning the actual cause of death on certificates, the categorisation of those deaths has been left to the hospitals or local officials. A doctor from a large public hospital in Shanghai said, “On the death certificate we fill in one main cause of death, and two to three sub-causes of death, so we basically leave out COVID," she said.