"Strengthening death registration systems around the world, long understood to be crucial to global public health strategy, is necessary for improved monitoring of this pandemic and future pandemics. In addition, further research is warranted to help distinguish the proportion of excess mortality that was directly caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection and the changes in causes of death as an indirect consequence of the pandemic."
None of which fits in with your general comments.
I'll give you an example of one area. A friend of mine is a diabetic and has been for a long time and would continue to be until he reaches a normal old age death point. He was being treated for the condition once they found he had it. Some wont have been. Catches covid and dies as a result that is what killed him.
Your quote is asking another question. More info on tying the 2 factors up. The person and their reaction to the disease. Not just death. All they currently know is that diabetes and over weight seem to figure but not with all. Fact is people can have a number of underlying conditions and carry on living for years, The older people are the more likely they are to have them. Some young too unfortunately will have them too but a lot less of them. Any age you care to consider,
I am not entirely sure that they even needed boosters.
Interesting aspect so why give them. If you look at the vaccine monitoring you will see that antibody levels drop off and that some are better than others and that Omicron made all aspects worse. The boosters are given due to this and age related factors in the same area. They then look at what effect they have. If boosted people have a better trip through catching it then it is the right thing to do. If less likely age groups crop up in hospital in fewer numbers again it's the right thing to do. This area actually is the one that shows all jabs that have been used have been very beneficial. All they need do is compare levels of vaccination in the population at ages and the same when people are treated. If the jabs did nothing the same split would be seen in hospitals. They most definitely aren't, unvaccinated levels are much higher, That's been going on for so long now there is nothing left to argue about.
Also what age group was the Prof talking about. Which booster dole out? Age range has varied. Now they are only for 50+ starting with the oldest.
The latest booster tuned for Delta and Omecron. Ask them some months ahead in time and they will know how effective they are.
Flue actually is similar but in a different way. It has strains and they have to guess which one will arrive here. Sometimes it doesn't work out as well as it should. Death data over many years shows that. However catching flu and needing to go to hospital does not absolutely mean death. It usually means that a person has developed a serious lung condition to go with it. Some recover. May well be more than die. I know of 2 people who finished up with that problem. One no complications and the other messed up kidneys from the drugs that were used so he needed to be recovered from that as well. He did. There are 3 classes of drugs used. Over the counter, prescription only and hospital only.
LOL Then there are these people that say they have had flu. No comment,