From what I have read, these are misconceptions
How COVID-19 Deaths Are Counted
About 30% of COVID deaths may not be classified as such
How COVID Death Counts Become the Stuff of Conspiracy Theories
Actual COVID-19 Cases Could Be 6 Times Greater Than Official Figures
The way deaths are classified, have always been classified, looks at the underlying cause of death. For example, a person how dies in a car accident, who is found to have Covid, Covid is not listed as the cause of death. However, someone who has developed pneumonia as a result of Covid, and dies from acute respiratory distress, Covid is the underlying cause of death. People who have heart conditions that get Covid and die, who would not have died at that time if they had not contracted Covid...Covid is the underlying cause of death. That person may have died from the heart condition in the next month, next year...but they died now because of contracting Covid. The majority of people who have died of Covid were elderly and had preexisting conditions. That they died when they did is because of Covid.
Population-level COVID-19 mortality risk for non-elderly individuals overall and for non-elderly individuals without underlying diseases in pandemic epicenters
COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics
There seems to be a trend to want to underplay the effect of the virus. Assuming you weed out the conspiracy theorists, a certain politicians "followers", etc. Is this just wishful thinking? "Maybe it's not so bad?". The US is trending very high these days yet the number of people traveling for Thanksgiving was very high. I know people are tired of the virus and the restrictions that result, but wishing it away won't change things
If Everyone Wore a Mask, 130,000 Lives Could Be Saved
Between covid fatigue, and the promise of effective vaccines, coupled with misinformation I fear things will get worse long before they get better
A Guy
