An image circulating online claims that the World Health Organization is tracking people who are not COVID-19 vaccinated. The claim is based on WHO’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes, which include a designation for people who are unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Messaging may explain that ICD-10 codes date back to 2015 and are used to consistently classify thousands of medical diagnoses and symptoms in hospitals worldwide. Emphasizing that the codes are important for monitoring national and international health trends and have been assigned to many vaccines is recommended, as is clarifying that WHO introduced several new ICD codes in 2021 related to COVID-19 diagnosis, complications, and vaccination status. These codes are used to document health issues that arise after COVID-19 infection or vaccination. Fact-checking sources:
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