"If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn't call it research."”

Albert Einstein

An ugly truth is emerging.

Covid-19 has lots of assistance in killing us.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data last week.

It shows that many Americans who died from covid-19 also had contributing conditions.

Only 6% of deaths have covid-19 as the only cause.

94% of patients who died from covid-19 also had other “health conditions and contributing causes.”

The CDC listed as the top underlying medical conditions linked to covid-19 deaths:

• Influenza and pneumonia
• Respiratory failure
• Hypertensive disease
• Diabetes
• Vascular and unspecified dementia
• Cardiac arrest
• Heart failure
• Renal failure
• Intentional and unintentional injury.
• Poisoning and other adverse events
• Other medical conditions

The CDC said it uses provisional death counts for "the most complete and accurate picture of lives lost to covid-19.”

These numbers are based on death certificates, which the CDC says are the most reliable source of data.

Death certificates reportedly contain information that is not available anywhere else.

They include health conditions, race, ethnicity and place of death.

Provisional death counts may not match counts from other sources, such as numbers from county health departments.

Death certificates take time to be completed.

States report at different rates.

It takes officials extra time to code covid-19 deaths.

And other reporting systems use different definitions or methods for counting deaths.

The organization adds that provisional data is not yet complete, provisional counts are not final and are subject to change.

Death counts should not be compared across states.