Ontario counts suicide victims as COVID-19 fatalities | True North

Ontario counts suicide victims as COVID-19 fatalities | True North

"If someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 commits suicide, the Ontario Ministry of Health will record their cause of death as COVID-19.

...“As a result of how data is recorded by health units into public health information databases, the ministry is not able to accurately separate how many people died directly because of COVID versus those who died with a COVID infection,” Ontario Ministry of Health Senior Communications Advisor Anna Miller said to True North in an email.

...“Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto.”

The approach of counting non-COVID deaths as COVID deaths is being done in the name of “inclusion.”...Read all.