I don't know the full story with this guy. He could very well be the world's healthiest 80 year old dude. I guess it would be more honest to say that COVID was a contributing factor but most likely not the only factor. Yet all people will see is that there was a COVID death in Utah and panic. I can almost guarantee that Jenny Wilson is going to extend the quarantine of Salt Lake County.

I'm not sure of the legitimacy of the Telegraph, linked here, but I've read similar reports elsewhere talking about the same thing and explains why Italy's death rate is so high and others are no.

“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus. 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,”