Your comment piqued my interest in the death stats. The CDC has a nice table about half way down the page that compares rates between 2019 and 2020.

What's interesting is not that Covid spiked, but the following causes of death also changed significantly in 2020:

- heart disease +5%

- cancer -2%

- unintentional injuries +20%

- stroke +5%

- chronic lower respiratory disease -6%

- Alzhiemer's disease +10%

- diabetes +15%

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm