Wow. You have a serious reading comprehension problem.
Due to concerns that Covid deaths were being over-reported, the CDC examined the death certificates.
They found 94.5% had properly listed contributing factors. Co-occuring conditions. You completely misread what that means. Completely misread.
I'll give you an example.
Here are the stages of Covid:
- Stage I: The early infection or viral response phase during which symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection dominate.
- Stage II: The pulmonary phase when the patients develop full-blown pneumonia with all its associated symptoms.
- Stage III: The hyperinflammation phase when patients develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis, and kidney and other organ failures.
The vast majority of those infected with Covid do not proceed past Stage 1. They recover.
However, if you have a co-occuring condition (old age, diabetes, bad heart, etc) your chances of proceeding to the next stages are greater.
The symptoms and progression of Covid are known to every doctor. They see it every day. So it is blazingly obvious when someone is dying from Covid.
When the ICD-10 is used to document their death, they list Covid as the cause of death, and any co-occuring illnesses as contributing factors.
The CDC verified this was being done correctly. Around 94.5% of Covid deaths had a co-occuring illness which contributed to their death.
These findings support the accuracy of COVID-19 mortality surveillance in the United States using official death certificates.
In other words, the CDC found that death certificates which listed Covid as the cause of death are accurate.
I have a friend who is in the advanced stages of MS. A few years ago, he was getting around with a walker. Then he caught the common cold. It very nearly killed him. He has been in a wheelchair ever since.
My friend has been give a life expectancy of another 20 years. But if he catches Covid, he will surely die. And the cause of his death would be Covid, with MS as a contributing factor. And that is what the doctors would say using ICD-10.