6% of the cases only have "Covid-19" on the cause of death form, which likely means that those forms were not filled out thoroughly enough.
If someone gets COVID, which then develops into pneumonia, then dies of respiratory failure, all of those should be on the death certificate, but the root cause is the viral infection. "Respiratory failure" is not exactly a pre-existing condition.
6% of the cases only have "Covid-19" on the cause of death form, which likely means that those forms were not filled out thoroughly enough.
If someone gets COVID, which then develops into pneumonia, then dies of respiratory failure, all of those should be on the death certificate, but the root cause is the viral infection. "Respiratory failure" is not exactly a pre-existing condition.