There are plenty of reasons that mortality should be higher there: non-existent or bad medical care...
There you have it. My theory is that medical care, not medical error but standard, approved medical care accounts for most of the deaths credited to Covid. My wife was given up for dead at a major hospital but, not wanting to have her tortured in her last hours on earth, the family refused to permit intubation. Annoyed that we wouldn't allow her to be placed in a ventilator, the hospital bundled her up without stabilizing her and shipped her back to hospice care where she completely recovered and is still alive months later.
She’s a keeper. Congrats to her and to you.
Sometimes medical care goes too far, makes the wrong decision, prescribes too many or wrong medications, etc.
I’ve known more than one person over the years who has begun feeling better when they started ignoring doctor’s orders or cut back the ten prescribed meds they were taking to the one or two they could tell were helping.
Doctors are like auto mechanics or the guy who fixes your refrigerator. They’re repairing a machine (in their case, the human body) and trying to determine, often through the process of elimination, what the problem is. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s not.