Wow, this is interesting & damming stuff. The virus is not the cause of death, it is the "inert" spiked protein shell that is the culprit.

The spike protein “damages cells” and causes “vascular disease” even without a virus [...] the Salk Institute warns that, “Salk researchers and collaborators show how the protein damages cells, confirming COVID-19 as a primarily vascular disease.”

"A lot of people think of it as a respiratory disease, but it’s really a vascular disease,” says Assistant Research Professor Uri Manor, who is co-senior author of the study. “That could explain why some people have strokes, and why some people have issues in other parts of the body. The commonality between them is that they all have vascular underpinnings.”