The submitter's intended implication here is that deaths are being mis-coded as COVID-19 deaths to inflate the totals, but this is not supported by the page the

The submitter's intended implication here is that deaths are being mis-coded as COVID-19 deaths to inflate the totals, but this is not supported by the page they linked to. Given what we know about COVID-19's effects on the cardiovascular system, it's not surprising that COVID-19 deaths often involve heart attacks. As for the 7.9k "accidents/suicides/poisonings" row, you're just misreading the table; what it actually says is "Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events", with a list of ranges of ICD-10 codes. You can look these ICD-10 codes up on https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/A00-B99 https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/A00-B99. That "other adverse events" category includes a lot, including adverse effects of medications and complications from surgery.