the other 94% of deaths had one or more comorbidities. I have not seen an updated number. I suspect that is a mixed bag. I am sure there are a lot of situations where someone with diabetes or heart disease got COVID and died years or even decades earlier than the would have without COVID. There are also a lot of situations where individuals were dying anyway and COVID accelerated the process. The ones that seem a little strange are the ones where someone died of completely unrelated causes but tested positive and those are also counted as a COVID death (per Dr. Birx). So late this summer an 8 year-old boy in Chicago died of a gunshot wound but he tested positive for COVID and he was counted as a COVID death. That makes no sense to me whatsoever.