That's evidence of pollution in general being a problem, which isn't even in the same ballpark as establishing culpability for any amount of deaths for an extra amount of one kind of pollutant by one carmaker over a fixed time period.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that article talks about particulate emissions, something which even the cheating VWs don't have a problem with - the datapoint that led to this whole thing coming to light were high NOx emissions, not particulates.