What happens if we assume that 30-50% of the dead athletes have had covid at one point in the last two years? Do we start assuming covid is like kicking due to

What happens if we assume that 30-50% of the dead athletes have had covid at one point in the last two years? Do we start assuming covid is like kicking due to drinking too many red bulls? Or, that the dead are only from the vaxed but not infected group? There’s no way of getting around the presence of covid so you have to determine “was vaxed” or “had covid” or “both” to your dataset.