Are Covid 19 deaths properly recorded?

[Charles]

I was a county medical examiner for over 15 for a large county. All deaths went through me. Here's a hypothetical that has some grounding in reality:

I have a very good friend whose wife was found dead of a massive pulmonary hemorrhage in her bathroom. 18 mo prior she presented with a superior vena cava syndrome which is almost pathognomonic for lung cancer. Her cancer eroded into a major vessel and she bled out.

Question: How would the primary cause of her death have been recorded? This did not occur in my county but had it would have been recorded as due to lung cancer with the complication of a pulmonary hemorrhage.

Question: If she had contracted covid 19 and died of covid 19 pneumonia how would the death been recorded? I believe it would have been recorded as a covid 19 pneumonia. I am trying to find this out but it is difficult to find out specifics.

The cliché that you can prove anything you want to by stastics is quite true. We have no idea how many actual covid cases there are. Next I believe that literally anybody that contracts the virus and dies will be listed as a covid death. This would include hospice patients.

Therefore the mortality rate for covid 19 may be wildly inflated. This is my belief. Any thoughts?