The main answer goes as follows:
Stricter rules.
It became common to attribute deaths to what was believed to have caused and also sped up fatalities resulting from preexisting conditions.
A few days ago, I looked up celebrity deaths on Wikipedia, and out of 12 deaths for that day, 9 were attributed to COVID-19.
The is no exaggeration.
Many of those who died were in their 80s.
Is it now the thing to do to write COVID-19 as cause of death to avoid any type of scrutiny or potential malpractice suit later.
Since rules in Germany are stricter, these types of shortcuts are rarer. People dying of COVID-19 are less likely to have their cause of death limited to that, but rather be looked at for what COVID-19 may have sped up.
And then of course there is this:
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