Claim: Death certificates with codes from the first chapter of ICD 10 show deaths that were caused by infectious disease.
Fact-check: The infectious diseases in an ONS graph are not the ones you might expect - Full Fact
Verdict: the first chapter of icd 10 does not include all infectious diseases. it also includes some diseases, such as sepsis, that are not contagious.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Daniella De Block Golding
Date published: 2021-03-18T00:00:00