Straight from the Coroner’s Office – Causes of Death in Santa Clara County, 2020

Under the California Public Records Act, I requested, from the Medical Examiner Coroner’s office, the data showing cause for all manner of deaths in Santa Clara County for January 1, 2020 – December 23, 2020 (I made the request on Dec 23). The ME-C pointed out that they only have “information on deaths that fall under ME-C jurisdiction, not all deaths that take place in Santa Clara County fall under the jurisdiction of the ME-C office.”

I have listed some interesting facts regarding Covid-19 deaths here. Draw your own conclusions.

• Number of Mortalities where Cause of Death is listed as Covid-19:
  734 (Feb 6 – Dec 23, 2020)
• Number of Mortalities where Covid-19 was listed as the sole cause without other Significant Conditions:
  20
• ⁃ 81 yr old Asian male, Mar 15
  ⁃ 66 yr old Caucasian male, Mar 17
  ⁃ 82 yr old Caucasian male, Mar 20
  ⁃ 72 yr old Asian male, Mar 20
  ⁃ 65 yr old Hispanic female, Mar 21
  ⁃ 73 yr old Asian male, Mar 22
  ⁃ 80 yr old Asian male, Mar 23
  ⁃ 56 yr old Hispanic female, Mar 23
  ⁃ 74 yr old Caucasian female, Apr 1
  ⁃ 56 yr old Hispanic male, Apr 8
  ⁃ 71 yr old Black male, Apr 9
  ⁃ 54 yr old Asian male, May 11
  ⁃ 64 yr old Asian male, Jul 20
  ⁃ 44 yr old Hispanic male, Aug 11
  ⁃ 53 yr old Caucasian female, Aug 11
  ⁃ 89 yr old Asian male, Sep 17
  ⁃ 31 yr old Hispanic female, Oct 5
  ⁃ 59 yr old Hispanic female, Oct 30
  ⁃ 45 yr old Hispanic female, Nov 17
  ⁃ 76 yr old Hispanic female, Dec 3
• Number of Covid-19 Deaths listed with Co-Morbidities and/or Other Significant Conditions:
  714
• Frequently Listed Co-Morbidities and/or Other Significant Conditions:
  ⁃ Congestive Heart Failure
  ⁃ Heart Disease
  ⁃ Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  ⁃ Diabetes
  ⁃ Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke)
  ⁃ Renal/Kidney disease
  ⁃ Obesity
  ⁃ Alzheimer’s Dementia
  ⁃ Parkinson’s disease
  ⁃ Cancers (various)
  ⁃ Cirrhosis, due to hepatitis or chronic alcoholism
  ⁃ Hyperlipidemia (abnormally high concentrations of fats in the blood)
  ⁃ Asthma (only when occurring with other significant conditions)
• Youngest to die from Covid-19:
  ⁃ 27 yr old Hispanic male, Mar 9, Cause – “Sudden unexpected death in the young,” Significant Conditions – “Molecular evidence of SARS-COV-2 (COVID- 19); Parainfluenza 3 virus positive; Cardiac genetic variants of unknown significance”
  ⁃ 30 yr old Asian male, Dec 22. Cause – “COVID-19 Complicating Intracranial Hemorrhage.” Other Significant Conditions – “Acute Respiratory Failure, Hypothyroidism”
  ⁃ 31 yr old Hispanic male, Mar 22, Cause – Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)/diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) including pulmomary thrombi COVID-19, Other – “Dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, extreme obesity
  ⁃ 31 yr old Hispanic male, Aug 13, Obesity
  ⁃ 31 yr old Hispanic male, Oct 5, No other cause listed

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