I read this theory before. Italy, apparently, lists cause-of-death like we list AIDS - if a 45 year old male has AIDS and dies of pneumonia, they’ll blame AIDS, not pneumonia, since AIDS left him vulnerable to pneumonia, when he otherwise should have been able to fight it off. In other words, the guy died pre-maturely, and that was due to having AIDS - so AIDS is the cause.
I guess we can flip it with Coronavirus if we want - they died of pneumonia, and thereby get our Coronavirus death rate down. Of course the number of people filling up the hospitals and needing to be cremated won’t change, but we’ll be able to tell the world that we have a lower death rate from Coronavirus!
It will not be long before many, many of those who are admitted to the Hospital will be given one or more of the medications soon to be approved for treating this Chinese Virus. They will be sent home and told to rest for a week or so while the medications do their job.