You can’t eliminate dead people from the death rate.
No, but neither should you uncritically invoke a misleading mortality rate when 27 deaths are linked to just one nursing home in Washington, according to Public Health Seattle and King County, and Overlake Hospital. (https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/life-care-employees-tested-coronavirus-facility-be-cleaned/EYNT43G5ZBH5BKZ3MATJOVVV5A/)