Reading through all these posts..it seems ridiculous that some are arguing that one must die directly of Covid-19 to be counted as one of the victims of the virus. It is like saying that those who die of Pneumonia after contracting Covid-19 were not killed by the virus. They were. A person with heart disease who contracts Covid-19 and dies of heart failure was killed by Covid-19. It was the proximate cause of death. Everyone with a brain knows that this disease afflicts those with underlying medical issues worse than those without..like most diseases. If someone would be alive today..who is not because of contracting Covid-19..then they are a victim of Covid-19.
That is not over-inflating the statistics..that is the simple truth. IMHO..of course.
My concern is not for people dying of pneumonia they caught because of the virus. Obviously.