And if this individual were to die from the same heart failure that likely would have killed him, while he had the virus, then it's plus one into the covid deaths' count.
I saw a list of covid positive counts by state the other day (probably a lead page on Google if searching on "covid") and every state but Iowa had left the "number recovered" column empty. Maybe the good people of Iowa just figured that nobody in the media could do simple math: recovered = cases - deaths, which as we know, is an incredibly high number in total, and by percentage.