@Obseedian - Yes.

Let's say you have diabetes and then have a heart attack.

You will show up in both columns.

The problem with the "Covid" column is that unlike the other major listed causes of death, which are required to be actually immediately causal or contributing to show up on the death certificate a positive test result post-mortem or within the previous 28 days for Covid is presumptively causal.

That's flat-out bullshit and applies to no other condition and never has in the history of the CDC. Therefore, since causality or contribution is not established you cannot use that data as meaning anything at all.

It's like saying that if I ate Wasabi within the last 28 days then Wasabi is a cause of my death.

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