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					Originally Posted by OLD BOY  Yes, but you are counting the numbers for the whole year, and that will be higher. The BBC report I heard on the news was that the death levels were now below average for the month. | 
	
 Many people who would have died this winter were killed by COVID in 2020 or 2021.  In other words, it shortened their life by a year or two. You can only die once.