The cause of death would be the cold, yes. That's how tallying these statistics work and yes, people can die from the cold. If someone ends up catching pneumon

The cause of death would be the cold, yes. That's how tallying these statistics work and yes, people can die from the cold. If someone ends up catching pneumonia because their immune system was compromised as a result of immunotherapy, pneumonia was the direct cause of death and the cancer lead up to pneumonia. The fact that we have to have this argument about basic death statistics is depressing. If you really wanted to play around with the numbers like what you're suggesting, you could easily make it so covid-19 causes zero deaths just by looking far back enough to find a contributing factor. Like age, immune system issues, other injuries, obesity etc.