Covid infections aren't the only thing that happened. Lives changed and access to medical care was reduced. Both could easily explain the slight increase in h

Covid infections aren't the only thing that happened. Lives changed and access to medical care was reduced. Both could easily explain the slight increase in health risks. I also didn't see them compare the contemporary control group to 2017. The majority of the contemporary control group probably were infected with Covid. If there were a significant impact they should have different outcomes than the 2017 group.