Percentage of Deaths Attributed to COVID-19 in...

CDPH receives weekly year-to-date dynamic data on deaths occurring in California from the CDPH Center for Health Statistics and Informatics. These data are limited to deaths occurring in California residents and are analyzed to identify COVID-19-coded deaths. COVID-19-coded deaths are defined as deaths with COVID-19 noted in any cause of death field on the death certificate (COVID-19 specified in a literal [text] cause of death field, or a COVID-19 ICD-10 code in a coded cause of death field). COVID-19-coded deaths are not necessarily laboratory-confirmed and are likely to be an underestimate of all COVID-19-associated deaths. CDPH calculates the percentage of COVID-19-coded deaths by dividing the number of COVID-19-coded deaths by the total number of all cause deaths during the same period.