On May 11, 2020, this report was posted online as an MMWR Early Release.New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) COVID-19 Response Team (View author affiliations)Views equals page views plus PDF downloadsSARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has since spread worldwide.
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic (1). That same day, the first confirmed COVID-19–associated fatality occurred in New York City (NYC).
To identify confirmed COVID-19–associated deaths, defined as those occurring in persons with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, on March 13, 2020, the New York City Department of.