pendennis wrote:
COVID-19 does not cause death; it's an "underlyer", causing pneumonia, heart problems, ARDS, renal failure, among others. Those are "causae mortis". Doctors who pronounce pneumonia, heart attack, etc., are absolutely correct.
But it reduces the apparent cost of Covid-19.
In my state, they attempt to determine whether a person would have continued living if not hit with a "co" disease - as is true of the 'flu' statistics that are so often quoted and mis-used.