California has become the first US state to ban medical professionals from listing “excited delirium” as a cause of death, a move that has been hailed by human rights activists as a “watershed moment”.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on October 8 that prohibited coroners, medical examiners, physicians or physician assistants from listing excited delirium on a person’s death certificate or in an autopsy report. The law is due to take effect in January.
