re: How many Americans have actually died from COVID-19?

Looking at raw numbers, before 2020 came along, there are X numbers of Americans who die each year, from various causes...like heart disease, strokes, Parkinson’s, kidney disease, influenza/pneumonia, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, etc. Looking at 2020, and the obscene numbers of deaths attributed to Covid, and the absence of the annual X numbers of deaths from the other causes normally reported as such, one must be left to conclude that the usual causes are the main cause for death. The complicating or accompanying factor may be the presence of Covid in each such patient/victim. Not the other way around, as the OMB media has erroneously reported it since day one. Another way to look at it, Medicare has been paying bounties to hospitals and med centers for each death attributed to Covid.