FedUpJW
Centers for Disease Control reporting protocol requires that anyone who tested positive for COVID-19 within 30 days of their death be included in these numbers
You are correct FedUPJW
Here is what CDC says on how one determines what a person dies off.
Basically they leave it up to the physician or other certifier to use their judgement on what to write on the Certificate. But it's almost impossible to be absolutely sure what the person died of when considering the elderly. The past couple of weeks tons of counties across the USA are being exposed that many of their hospitals have lied regarding the real cause of deaths on the supposed "Covid" Deaths. It's possible that the actual number of Covid deaths in the USA is off by 50%
Quote CDC:
Because there are no objective measures of what caused a person’s death, cause-of-death statements are a medical opinion. Even an autopsy may not reveal an obvious cause of death, and the certifier must still decide which conditions to report as causes of death on the death certificate. When laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or unavailable, certifiers determine and report the causes of death on the death certificate based on medical history, medical records, autopsy report (if available), and other relevant sources of information. The physician or other certifier should always use his or her best medical judgment in determining and reporting the cause(s) of death on death certificates. It is the certifier’s responsibility to make these determinations.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/faq.htm#CertifyingDeathsDuetoCOVID19