Like a 400 lb fat fuck with diabetes has a heartattack and dies. During admittance into hospital they find he has Covid. How is that getting counted? Covid didn't kill that dude. Eating a pound of Oreos every day of his life killed him
If covid caused his heart attack as it regularly does in severe cases, then I find this a very faulty logic.
Somebody's lack of physiologic reserve allowing them to absorb the insult of a pathogen does not mean that pathogen was no longer the cause of death.
His covid diagnosis would only be inconsequential If it did not elicit the myocardial infarction. But you can't simply make a blanket statement that because somebody is obese and diabetic and covid didn't kill them, just because you don't understand all the ways that covid stresses the body.
2 years ago one of my patients developed influenza and associated viral pneumonia. Probably didn't have the healthiest life. No formal diagnosis what was a guy in his 50s with mild hypoxia and who is on and off again tachycardic due to both his oxygen and fever response. During one tachycardic run he developed subternal chest pain which is found to be an ST elevation MI and was brought to the Cath lab. He unfortunately died.
He obviously did not have the best cardiovascular health. But also his death is obviously a direct cause I have his influenza infection. This should not be discounted.
Your argument could literally be used to remove almost every disease except trauma as a cause of death. And that would be really inaccurate for describing what led to that person's passing.
