But the cause can be politically manipulated like dying in a motorcycle crash due to COVID.
There are probably a dozen or so incorrectly assigned deaths across the US. Out of ~586,000 COVID-19 deaths.
Now look at March 2020 when there were no COVID-19 tests available and there was a sudden unexplained spike in heart disease and dementia deaths in the New York City area. A spike which instantly vanished when COVID-19 tests became available.
Throughout 2020, deaths from cancer and heart disease (along with pretty much every other normal cause of death) were at or slightly above normal levels. Yet the TOTAL deaths in 2020 rose by over 17% in the US. A normal year-over-year increase is 0.3% - 0.7%. But in 2020, we had over 530,000 extra deaths. During a pandemic. In which millions of doctors and nurses around the country reported losing scores of patients to the new disease.
It takes some real Olympic level mental gymnastics to explain why those two things are unrelated and where those half million new deaths came from.