RE: anyone who died with COVID as having died from COVID.
I am not sure if this distinction is significant at all. The above reasoning is used by many to downplay the lethality of Covid-19, but is it not that lethal?
Say, someone had cancer and died while being diagnosed with Covid.
We would like to say that he died of cancer, not Covid. But this begs the question — IF HE DID NOT HAVE COVID, how many years longer could he have lived?
Was Covid not a reason for accelerating the day of his demise?
we can say that Covid did not kill him, cancer did. But was having Covid NOT a contributing factor to his early death? If so, Covid is STILL deadly an we cannot downplay its seriousness.
CDC still says 94% of “covid” deaths involved an average of 2.6 comorbidities. There’s no way anyone can rationally say 100% of that 94% would have lived if they didn’t gete covid. Morbidities cause death.
CDC says 160K die every year from chronic lower respiratory diseases, well ever year except for 2020!
While Trump was president they counted any death with a touch of COVID as a COVID death regardless of comorbidity factors. I believe they’ve started to record deaths by the comorbidiy factor regardless of whether there was COVID involved. Thay way they can show a decline in COVID deaths thanks to Biden’s robust plan.
So, no more deaths from heart attacks or cancer or motorcycle accidents if they have COVID... gotcha