This article is over a month old and in California is 100% not true. We count anyone with Covid who dies, as a Covid death. Doesn’t matter if they had stage four cancer, brain tumor or car crash. All are Covid deaths. From someone on the “front lines” dealing with this every day at work, I know the death count is OVERstated. I do not need some Yale study and any political pressure that may influence them, to tell me what I see and feel every day. My city had a huge amount of Covid cases but our monthly death totals before and after have remained unchanged. The only difference is the cause of deaths that use to be unclassified are always labeled Covid deaths if they test positive. The hospitals, ems, and fire departments have a huge financial incentive to call as many deaths “Covid” as possible. We get direct funding from the feds based off the Covid death counts. I can not speak for other parts of the county however and will not try.