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.

My mom's death. Was not entered as the cause on her death cert.

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.

All part of the if we don’t count
Covid deaths, then the numbers aren’t rising strategy.

we knew it at the time it was happening. And not all of it was malfeasance on the part of doctors, hospitals, or coroners. Many of the magas, themselves, and their family pleaded that the death be attributed to anything other than Covid. Covid was a badge of shame to these people. Its like they displeased their master or something by contracting it, let alone dying from it...

Her treatment was delayed because the hospital she went to was overfilled with Covid patients. Her kids took her to a hospital over 2 hours away, but she died in spite of their heroic effort to get her the care she needed. She wasn't even 60.

And how many DUers have reported unexpected deaths of loved ones in that time period?

Let's not forget that medical equipment and hazmat suits were diverted from hospitals by trump criminals and went where? For how much? Let's not forget hospitals got shipments disguised as nonessential deliveries to get them and a doctor in Mississippi devised ventilators out of garden hoses to help patients survive. The way traitor handled Covid is barbaric, just one of the crimes against humanity he will answer for.

He will never answer for that, not unless we Nuremberg trial the administrations actions vs covid and prove he did

Those that didn’t believe in Covid were adamantly opposed to the cause of death being Covid.

I remember reading more than one story about family members becoming violently enraged when told their loved one had just died of Covid.

I would bet that it was this dynamic that skewed the numbers.

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.