NSW Health made the admission back in August but it was not widely reported, possibly because of the age-old fact that good news doesn't sell as many newspapers. According to NSW Health not as many people have died of coronavirus as was previously reported to the population. It's hard to believe they were ignorant of the facts so it would seem they lied intentionally.
Hardly anyone dies from covid, again this is like Aids, you don't die from it, it complicates existing conditions that might otherwise be survivable. Heart failure is a commonplace complication from virus infection, the virus can stress the heart above normal levels and then a pre-existing deformity is exposed and you die. Hence the healthier you are the less likely you are to die from viral infections. This is in the same way flu & covid leads to pneumonia, you die from the pneumonia, the underlying condition is flu/covid. The UK has a lot of study subject matter on this due to the high amount of deaths there. If you already have emphysema you will die from that with complications from covid, you could have survived another 5 years who knows.
The nature of a virus is that it does not want to kill you, you are food for it, the host is integral to it's survival. It just kills because it overwhelms the hosts system to keep it alive and to survive in the host it has to be strong to avoid being instantly kicked by the immune system. Because it relies on evolution as to whether it survives in you, it can be pot luck what it does to the host to survive.
The question to be asked is, "would that person have died from that illness, then and there, had they not had covid" if the answer is yes, then covid not a factor, if no then covid was a factor. In almost all cases the nature of covid makes it a contributory factor in at least 80% of deaths with covid (overseas studies). The UK separates with and from into separate categories so it's clear and what they found was not much significant change from what was being recorded.
If the numbers were so out of whack then they would be revised, but they have not, showing there's a high chance that covid was a significant reason they died on that day.