Those issues have been brought up before and shot down. The bullets were what happened in March/April 2020. The EDs rose with Covid, precisely, and there were no mitigation measures in place at that time. Nothing that would cause people to defer surgery. There were no lockdowns yet to generate business loss and suicide. It was too soon. But the ED curve aligned directly with the Covid curve.
Now, if Covid filled ICUs and generated other deaths that way, those are real Covid deaths, even if never tested positive. They died because of Covid. They are Excess and derived from Covid.
The virus trumps everything. Govt has no power over it. Business has no power over it. No one does.
Just remember, EDs are the gold standard and thank God we have them because otherwise agenda and other crap would erase useful data.
Does anyone have a list of the conditions that qualify as a co-morbidity? Not looking for arguments, just a list of what the CDC defines to be a co-morbidity.