At the 4th Spring Conference of the German Society of Legal Medicine ‘Digital,’ researchers from the NATON consortium (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) presented the first three contributions: Malin Lutter reported on the imaging morphological lung pathology in COVID-19, comparing clinical and postmortem computed tomography. Fabian Heinrich presented a postmortem study on concerning SARS-CoV-2 variants. Kristina Allgoewer introduced an analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the entry of corpses into a legal medicine institute. We will report shortly on the publication of the results.