Died "with" Covid....

[C_T_Russell]

I think it is perfectly okay to be recorded as a fatality with covid... The point is to see how far the virus is spreading, how many cases there are, and what outcomes those cases experience.

I believe - though I haven't double checked - we did the same thing with HIV in the early days.

What is more interesting is the way some sections of the population seem determined to undermine the seriousness of this pandemic in ways that appear to be all about their personal biases rather than public health concerns.

It looks like a way of scaremongering to me, although I guess with HIV it probably applies moreso since its its a virus that actually affects the immune system, so deaths involving other illnesses such as colds, flu, pneumonia, etc (which is how most HIV patients die) would apply.
Although I would draw the line at the likes of car accidents, murder etc.
That is completley pointless.

One could argue that covid would be a contributing factor to the death of those in poor health to begin with, so i get that in such circumstances, but when someone dies of a heart attack or some other unrelated cause, then it should just be recorded as a daily case.
I bet if all these covid deaths were reviewed, you would see that many of them did not actually die "from" covid.
The official information act should be able to provide us these figures.