Bogdanović, Milenko (57203508508)Milenko (57203508508)BogdanovićAtanasijević, Tatjana (6603042957)Tatjana (6603042957)AtanasijevićPopović, Vesna (57202715640)Vesna (57202715640)PopovićMihailović, Zoran (6508333902)Zoran (6508333902)MihailovićRadnić, Bojana (55245986600)Bojana (55245986600)RadnićDurmić, Tijana (57807942100)Tijana (57807942100)Durmić2025-06-122025-06-122021https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-020-00308-2https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85091310077&doi=10.1007%2fs12024-020-00308-2&partnerID=40&md5=be901d5f3f591a241fe502c586a3f023https://remedy.med.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4334We believe that forensic medicine should play a significant role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Forensic pathologists should ask and answer various questions through autopsy cases during the COVID-19 period, thus providing a significant contribution to science. Some of the potential roles of forensic medicine in this issue include: determining the exact cause of death among the deceased who were SARS-CoV-2 positive, contribution to the accuracy of mortality statistics, understanding pathological mechanisms of COVID-19, tracking the presence of the virus over time, survival of the virus after death as well as dealing with medicolegal issues. A detailed multidisciplinary analysis of autopsy samples would undoubtedly help understand this new illness and its clinical management. Therefore, autopsies during the COVID-19 pandemic should not be an exception, but certainly a rule. © 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.AutopsyCause of deathCOVID-19 pandemicForensicsMortality statisticsSARS-CoV-2