‘The lockdown is causing so many deaths’ – spiked

Not many numbers involved, so I can't take this article seriously. I looked up this Doctor. See for yourself:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Malcolm_Kendrick

Here's an easy way to determine spread and increased severity:

Deaths recorded this month last year / million population

vs.

Deaths recorded this month / million population

Of course you'd have to be a month off because these things don't always bubble up quickly, and people are found dead in their home after having been there a week

You could get tricky with it, and filter out obvious non-viral deaths - murder/suicide, car accidents, drug overdoses.