Well, is it possible to even know whether or not the person, who say, has heart disease, would have lived LONGER had he not contracted Covid-19?
I think the right way to code it would be to say that he died of heart disease *AND* he was Covid-19 positive.
Now, do we count it on the heart disease tally? Covid-19 tally? or both, is the question.
If a guy dies on a roller coaster by having a heart attack, we don’t say the roller coaster killed him.