Since I know many doctors and nurses on the east and west coast many deaths were listed as covid if they tested for covid although they were close to death/dying of something else in the days before COD penned by a doctor. Some for expediency and some, there was more money coming from the government, $50K for Covid patients January to June 2020, and god knows the overworked hospital could use it. It is like the old automotive "change your oil" add...pay me now or pay me later in that although they died of "covid" they would have died a week, month or 6 months later due to their underling condition, ie. COPD , heart or liver disease. The CDC reported that in:
2020--2,927,601 people died
2018--2,606,928,
2019--2,614,950. The number of deaths in 2020 is about 310,000 greater than either of the past two years.
Many of those were accelerated deaths, although not all, due to the extra stress placed on a fragile body by Covid. The number to look at is the number of deaths in 2021, 2022 and correlate the data to 2020. That may not work out as covid deaths are still pileing up.