No as a matter of fact you did not post word for word. Here is a direct copy and paste from the article of their conclusions.
“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three,” he says.
This does not mean that C0VlD-19 did not contribute to a patient's death, rather it demonstrates that Italy's fatality toll has surged as a large proportion of patients have underlying health conditions.”
What they are saying is very clear. What you have stated is a profoundly false and misleading characterization of this article.
Direct cause of death means the lungs failing and person dying, ONLY because the lungs failed. However, the reason people with other illnesses dying (comorbidies) is because they can be pushed into heart failure, kidney failure, liver failure, etc due to the pneumonia. If you are not completely healthy something like severe pneumonia can push you over the edge faster. Had these people not gotten covid pneumonia they would have years or decades longer just fine with their other medical conditions.
What are we asking? When you look up the death rate of something, aren’t we talking about directly contributable?
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