Medical experts told USA TODAY the post exaggerates the use of ICD-10 medical ... status" (Z28.39) These codes allow medical professionals to collect data on vaccine efficacy, like how many ...

He said the ICD-10 codes could also help track data on vaccine efficacy, including comparisons between vaccination statuses of hospital or ICU patients with COVID, or patient mortality data based ...

ICD-10 is the 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases published by the World Health Organization. We have used ICD-9 since the 1970s and those codes have limitations that ...