ABSORBER, attacking an argument based on its source is known as the "genetic fallacy." But the article is an opinion piece and is by non-experts (like various other things posted in this thread). I'm more interested in what Dr. Fauci says, for sure.
Your post above doesn't show that CDC data demonstrate pneumonia deaths exceed covid-19 deaths. That point may be made somewhere else in what you posted previously, but the quotation in your post immediately above says nothing of the sort.
Let's assume the Post article's chart only reflects the hard-hit areas in the second graph. (I honestly don't know the answer to that.) Wouldn't that still show that in areas where covid-19 rates are highest, it is a very significant cause of death? Seems like something I would want to know if I were considering whether to continue measures to reduce the spread of the disease.