Except it's not a straightforward answer at all. I'm not even in medicine and I can intuitively see how unclear the answer to that question could be. Take someo

Except it's not a straightforward answer at all. I'm not even in medicine and I can intuitively see how unclear the answer to that question could be. Take someone who is a lifelong smoker and gets COVID and dies from COPD/Chronic Respiratory Failure. What killed them, the COVID or the smoking? This is probably one of the most elementary examples of how complicated determining cause of death can be, I am sure there are many many more that someone who is a professional in that field could cite.