Death rates were vastly higher than usual, even with lockdowns, testing, masks, shielding, social distancing and eventually vaccines. Plus those pretty much eli

Death rates were vastly higher than usual, even with lockdowns, testing, masks, shielding, social distancing and eventually vaccines. Plus those pretty much eliminated flu this winter. So the deaths here are artificially low numbers. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-death-count https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...