[hn_ta456]

The full quote is worse! You did read the definition in my original link of a “probable case”, right? You can be a “probable case” if you have similar symptoms and were near a known case.

>”due to COVID” is different from “cause of death”

Yes, in this wording “a death due to COVID may be attributed…” is the bit that goes on the death certificate. Reading the full sentence, it clarifies COVID has only to contribute to a death for it that to be recorded as COVID death.

Reading these official definitions, if you die with a raised temperature and a cough, and were near other COVID cases, that’s all that is needed to be a COVID death.

[ceejayoz]

Again, this theory simply cannot explain the numbers in the “cause of death” tallies we’re discussing.

A death certificate can list multiple reasons, but they aren’t making that mistake or the total deaths count would be a mega-blowout.

[hn_ta456]

I don’t know what “theory” you are referring to, as I am only talking about the official definition of a COVID death of the country in question.

>the total deaths count would be a mega-blowout

Maybe. Due to the absurdly lax definitions, we will never know.