Even if you had stage 4 cancer and would die in a week anyway? Why yes, then it might be more accurate to say that your stage 4 cancer killed you. But no

Even if you had stage 4 cancer and would die in a week anyway? Why yes, then it might be more accurate to say that your stage 4 cancer killed you. But now, consider: most people are not in the absolutely final, terminal phase of a deadly illness. To what percentage of dead COVID-19 sufferers would a situation like that possibly apply? A very tiny one, surely. That is why tallying COVID-19 deaths in this manner is acceptable and accurate. It perhaps introduces a small amount of error, but is superior to Russia's method (which sounds like outright denial of reality) and the error % introduced is in any event, is at least an order of magnitude (if not two) smaller than that posed by the number of undiagnosed COVID-19 cases.