[BohDaThone]

Death total increased most years in the 2010s as the population Aged BUT the increase was modest. Never more than 3% year over year So anything like 15% year over year , let alone 25 as in the OP, (I think that will be a bit high) is fantastically out of line.

Doesn’t prove the best way to deal with it , but the all causes death total Shows that it isn’t just the flu.

[Socon-Econ]

Death total increased most years in the 2010s as the population Aged BUT the increase was modest. Never more than 3% year over year.
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True; but that result reflects a straight trend line calculation, which underestimates the increasing marginal rate of deaths that can naturally expect to occur when a big component of the population (the aging baby boomer bulge) gets into it’s late 60’s, when health problems naturally escalate exponentially.