Covid deaths: Due to or with?

The two old geezers would like their death certificates to reflect reality, not politics.- Carl Heneghan and
Tom Jefferson
A recent scientific report in Nature reported that, among 530 in-hospital deaths registered as COVID-19 deaths in seven hospitals in Athens during the Omicron wave of the pandemic, a COVID-19-associated death was defined as ‘any death occurring in a person with positive testing for SARS-Cov-2 at the time of death.’
The researchers categorised deaths into two groups: (a) deaths “due to” COVID-19, where the infection was a direct cause or led to death, and (b) deaths “with” COVID-19, where the infection was unrelated to the cause of death. 

They used three sources for classification: the death certificate, the patient’s medical chart, and interviews with the attending physician using a structured questionnaire.
The reanalysis reported that 290 (55%) of deaths were classified as “due to” COVID-19....