{"id":1523,"date":"2026-07-19T19:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.fpdtimeandattendance.co.za\/?page_id=1523"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:07:39","slug":"module-5-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/?page_id=1523","title":{"rendered":"Module 5.5"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Example of death due to Covid-19 5\/12<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n

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Let\u2019s look at an example of a death due to COVID-19.<\/p>

\u201cA\u00a058-year-old\u00a0male patient, known with a past medical history of hypertension and type 2 diabetes, since age 38, presented with a\u00a01-week\u00a0history\u00a0of anosmia, cough and myalgia, and a\u00a03-day\u00a0history of dyspnoea.\u00a0\u00a0In hospital he deteriorated over the course of 3 days, was diagnosed with Acute respiratory distress syndrome and admitted to the ICU.\u00a0\u00a0His\u00a0COVID swab from admission at this point, returned positive.\u00a0\u00a0In ICU, his respiratory status continued to deteriorate.\u00a0\u00a0He died\u00a02 days later.\u00a0<\/p>

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\u2022The immediate cause of death is Acute respiratory distress syndrome, reported in Part 1, line a.
\u2022The\u00a0diagnosis of COVID-19\u00a0is confirmed with laboratory testing and is clearly the underlying cause of death, so it reported on the lowest used line of Part 1.\u00a0
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Slide-6-Mod-5.mp4 < Back Restart Forward > Example of death due to Covid-19 5\/12 Home Let\u2019s look at an example of a death due to COVID-19. \u201cA\u00a058-year-old\u00a0male patient, known with a past medical history of hypertension and type 2 diabetes, since age 38, presented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1523","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1523\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}