Being old didn’t help his situation of course. But had he been shot, you probably wouldn’t say that he died because he was old. You’d say he died because he got shot.
The way they are counting COVID deaths means he could have died from a gunshot wound and still be counted as a COVID death.
“Being old didn’t help his situation of course. But had he been shot, you probably wouldn’t say that he died because he was old. You’d say he died because he got shot.”
Not the best analogy.
Nonagenarians generally die from infection related complications.