Not a new discovery at all. Most here have long noted that if someone died of a heart attack but also had COVID that it was counted as a COVID related death. What she and many others are either missing or ignoring is that the CDC death numbers for COVID are counted the same way they are for flu deaths. Look up average flu deaths for the past however many years you want to look back. It varies a lot but generally averages 40,000-50,000 a year. If you pay attention to the details of the reporting, the average number of deaths attributed to the flu alone ranges around 6,000-10,000 annually. The rest are deaths where the flu was considered a contributing factor as a comorbidity. In other words, where people died of a heart disease, another breathing disorder, whatever, but they also had the flu. The point being, the stress of the flu aggravated whatever underlying health problem they had and weakened them too much to fight it. Counted as deaths due to the flu. Same methodology was used in counting COVID deaths. Yes, deaths in otherwise healthy people who died of COVID alone are far less than the total attributed to COVID related deaths. Shorthanded lazy reporting often just says COVID deaths. Obviously not totally accurate. Again, it's spelled out in the minutia of the details in the CDC methodology. Most people don't read more than a few lines, if at all, beyond headlines.