That's an interesting article, but it focuses exclusively on statistics from Germany, a country that had a pre-pandemic mortality rate 50% higher than the US (p

That's an interesting article, but it focuses exclusively on statistics from Germany, a country that had a pre-pandemic mortality rate 50% higher than the US (presumably due to an older population), and a COVID CFR half that if the US. Therefore it's not surprising that the pandemic's excess mortality signature isn't as clear there.