The CDC is broken.
Sure, if someone dies and they have multiple causes of death (heart attack, lung failure, kidney failure, etc,) BUT they test positive they are listed as a COVID death. Duuuh. It's what the presumptive cause of the heart or other organ failure was. The person would still be among us if they hadn't contracted it.
It's kind of like saying someone shot in the heart died of heart failure. They did, but that's not exactly accurate.
It's political BS that they want to say that. It's a much easier case to make to say the number is under reported because so little testing is available.
Trump doesn't want anyone to trust anything the gov't has to say, so he is destroying their ability to say anything truthful. Don't buy into it. It's all him. It can change.