Back in 2020 when everyone was unvaccinated the CDC issued this statement: “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”

https://acdis.org/articles/news-94-patients-who-died-covid-1...

Fortunately the vaccines and other improved therapies are now pretty effective at preventing deaths even among high risk patients.