Glancing at a few graphs of death rates/year, they show, if anything, the opposite of what he claims. And note the effect he's claiming would be huge, the drug

Glancing at a few graphs of death rates/year, they show, if anything, the opposite of what he claims. And note the effect he's claiming would be huge, the drug was on a market for a few years, so 500k would be on the order of 100k/year. Total cardiovascular deaths /year in the US run around 500k a year, so you'd be seeing a jump of 20% and then a similar decline a few years later. Its hard to imagine that would go unnoticed.