Here's something for the Covid19 conspiracy theorists.
Do you know how AIDS deaths are recorded? Trick question, they're technically not. People who die with AIDS will usually die from severe infections like pneumonia, and are recorded as dying from pneumonia with an underlying AIDS condition.
So why is it like this? Because AIDS is the underlying condition that while it weakened you, it won't or can't kill you anytime soon by itself. Pneumonia came around though, and it finished you off. The killing blow is the one that counts.
But because HIV is such an unique virus, what you will have is a statistic of how many people with AIDS have died.
Now, let's think back to how Corona-chan deaths are recorded. Oh right, something like heart disease or old age weakens you, and Corona comes around to finish you off. Because the underlying condition is something you probably lived for a while, and could have probably lived for a good while longer, it's Corona-chan's finishing blow we give the credit for the kill to.
@alyx Right. CDC doesn't record flu, just pneumonia. The flu can also kill old people via ARDS or other means, so they go back and retroactively estimate flu deaths. pneumonia deaths were at 50k for 2016, 55k for 2017 and the 2019 estimate retroactively said 20k~60k died from flu. That's a huge range!
I found all that when I was making this: https://covid19data.ml (don't use it, it's old and crap and unmaintained)