This is where you have to start. Just focus on this if you can.
DR. BIRX: "Right now, we’re still recording it, and we’ll — I mean, the great thing about having forms that come in and a form that has the ability to mark it as COVID-19 infection — the intent is, right now, that those — if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death."
Documented here:
Access Denied
The video of this press conference is available. Links to her saying this are widely available.
The CDC data supports what Dr. Birx says they were going to do, conclusively. Rip has linked to it several times in this thread.
If something is on video and archived so thoroughly, then who's the
denier?