"I have had that question a million times. How many people have died of COVID? And my short answer for that is, none,” Cotter said.

“Everybody has died from a disease that was exacerbated or brought on because of the COVID virus.”..

“We have to sign off on all of those deaths and so when we sign off, we sign off as directed by the state health department.”

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Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter said Monday that none of the 14 deaths related to COVID-19 in Pueblo county were caused solely by the virus itself.Two new deaths were announced Monday: a 56-year-old man, who was reported as a previous positive cas