車禍當場死亡者不計，但因醫治搶救無效死亡且病毒陽性者計入。這或許可以對病毒感染對醫療救治影響
的評估有一定的科學意義。
HOST: Another example that has confused people in the past: someone is in a car crash and
maybe the victim had COVID or develops COVID, and people get confused - how can COVID
be responsible for somebody who's been injured in a car crash? What will you tell folks who are
confused about that?
ROBERT ANDERSON: Well it really depends on the circumstances. In cases where the death
is clearly the result of trauma caused by the crash, whether the decedent had COVID-19 or not
should be irrelevant. COVID-19 is not a factor in those cases. Now, in these cases it should not
be counted as COVID-19 deaths - because the trauma caused the death, not any sort of viral
infection that person might have had. However, we do know of cases where people have been
hospitalized with serious but not life-threatening trauma from a car crash, who contracted
COVID-19 in the hospital and then subsequently died as result of COVID-19. So in a case like
that the crash and the trauma might be a contributing factor, but the underlying cause was
COVID-19. So that was the primary cause of death because that's what caused them to die when
they died - it wasn't the trauma. So it's complicated and it does depend on the circumstances.
HOST: Is there any follow-up analysis planned on these types of deaths to suggest whethes
COVID Was rewly the cause or just happened to be present?
ROBERT ANDERSON: Following back on hundreds of thousands
