What’s the difference between dying “with” covid and dying “of” covid?

[AngeloMysterioso]

I thought “with” means the person had covid when they died but it wasn’t covid that killed them. Is that right?

My mum died last April - apart from her dementia and diabetes she was pretty well until she went into a care home in March when my dad died.
2 weeks of trundling round there, quite happy and had settled in well. Then she stopped eating and drinking, wouldn't get out of bed, sleeping all the time. She had a raised temperature on one day, and so was tested - which came back positive after she died. No other symptoms of COVID at all.
If COVID wasn't going through the home, we'd probably have just thought it was her dementia taking a sharp downturn, and dementia is what is on her death certificate - but COVID is probably what brought on the massive downturn. So she died with, not of it

My mum had terminal cancer, pneumonia/covid probably hastened her death by some weeks.

Doesn't matter that she died with it or of it. She had covid, she died.

Exactly but 100k died of covid sounds better when you're trying to terrify the population into submission When that doesn't work killer new variant hysterics should do it

Except if you wanted to make the figures as big as you can to scare the population into submission you'd cite the number of people with covid on their death certificate - which is about 4% higher than the 'official' stats...