A Primer On Our Methods, And The Significance Of UCoD Swapping

 For death certificates, diagnostic codes from the ICD-10 database are applied by the CDC to all of the conditions stipulated on a death certificate as a CoD. Critically, the CDC designates one of the ICD codes it applied to the death certificate as the UCoD. In theory, the ICD code designated by the CDC as the UCoD should match the condition listed as the UCoD on the death certificate.

UCoD swapping to designate covid as the UCoD on death certificates where covid wasn't documented as the UCoD. The principal significance of UCoD for us is that it provides an additional method or pathway for increasing the number of "Covid deaths." By falsely designating covid as the UCoD on death certificates where a different condition is listed as the UCoD, the CDC could make covid look far more lethal.

I previously published a list of the conditions that were documented as the UCoD on a death certificate where the CDC nevertheless designated covid as the UCoD when it applied the ICD codes - the 'UCoD swap.

This enabled us to search for death certificates where the UCoD condition assigned by the CDC didn't match the UCoD condition listed on the death certificate, specifically where the mismatched UCoD assigned by the CDC was U07.1.

I added a column to the spreadsheets containing the death certificates for 'UCoD Text.' This was done by an Excel formula consisting of 4 nested 'if' conditions starting from Cause D using the following parameters: If Cause D =/= blank, UCoD = Cause D; else, if Cause C =/= blank, UCoD = Cause C; else, if Cause B =/= blank, UCoD = Cause B; else, UCoD = Cause A. I isolated all deaths with a UCoD of U07.1 using Excel.

The number of these UCoD deaths for each unique text description was calculated using the Excel Countif function applied to the set of death certificates containing a UCoD of U07.1.

Applying a UCoD other than the one stipulated by the death certificate could be justified where the death certificate was clearly filled out erroneously and it is obvious based on the totality of information presented in the death certificate which of the other conditions identified as a CoD should have been identified as the UCoD would the coroner have filled out the death certificate properly. 

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