Many pandemic deaths attributed to natural causes may have actually been due to Covid, study says
Source: The Independent
6 hours ago
Many deaths that had previously been attributed to natural causes during the first months of the Covid pandemic may actually have been because of the virus.
More than one million deaths during the first 30 months of the pandemic were reported from other natural causes, like disease and chronic conditions, according to the National Institute on Aging. Previous studies found that the excess deaths were higher than reported Covid deaths, but most investigated extra deaths from all causes.
Now, researchers say the timing of these deaths suggests they could have been unrecognized fatalities or indirectly linked to pandemic-related disruptions in health care and in other fields.
A study funded by the institute revealed there were approximately 1.2 million more natural-cause deaths than expected from March 2020 to August 2022 across 3,127 US counties. Of those deaths, nearly 163,000 did not have a Covid notation on their death certificates.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/death-covid-19-pandemic-natural-cause-b2635013.html
Link to STUDY - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38300867/
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not only from my local Health Department, but the state one, neighboring county ones, those from a few nearby states, and the federal ones, that many medical providers were conflicted and unsure how to classify many of the deaths given that many of the sickest had underlying conditions that may have still been the actual cause, and COVID just finished the poor person off quicker. 
red don killed at least a million people.
When the first reports of COVID-19 surfaced, the public health department of the dumbass county I lived in at the time (in SW AZ) issued a press release stating that the impact was expected to be minor, with low infection rates, so residents shouldn't worry. What they were doing was parroting the red don administration's position at the time that this was no big deal.
I'm no epidemiologist, but even I recognized that as BS--a novel pathogen in an unprotected population was much more likely to undergo exponential growth and spread widely, which is what happened. I'll bet that in that county, many deaths were misattributed as not being COVID-19 related when, in fact, they were.
Covid was here in the US before March 2020. It couldn't be diagnosed until the disease profile was widely distributed. But it was spreading like wildfire anyway and the elderly patients were especially susceptible. Probably some pneumonia deaths were really Covid, in late 2019 and early 2020.
