When someone dies of a transmissible disease they caught through the actions of someone else, is it more accurate to say they were killed by the disease, or by the person who gave them the disease?
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Depends a lot on actions I think. It's always accurate to say the disease killed them, but given a deliberate attempt to infect someone it'd also be accurate to say the person killed them. In between... depends how interchangeable that person is I guess.
e.g. if someone goes to visit an elderly relative knowing you have COVID-19 and they die of it, I think it's fair to say the person killed them. If 1000 people go to a club and all think they're COVID-19 free but some are wrong and someone dies of it, I don't think it is.
