“The CDC memorandum instructs doctors to classify ALL pneumonia + COVID fatalities as exclusively COVID fatalities.”
It does no such thing.
Have you even read the memo?
On pages 4-5-6...
It explicitly tells doctors to report pre-existing health issues in Part II of the Death Certificate.
The Immediate and Underlying Causes of Death are reported only in Part I.
It explicitly tells doctors to list COVID-19 as the “UCOD” - Underlying Cause of Death - when Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome or Pneumonia are present.
When that Death Certificate lands on the desk of a statistician, the UCOD becomes the final and exclusive “cause” of death.
That is NOT how Death Certificates for pneumonia + influenza are filled out.