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It really isn't if you are starting from an extremely low baseline.

Depends on historical variance, no? The baseline was half a percent of hundreds of millions of people. It’s a lot of additional deaths.

So we should just ignore these numbers? Does this not warrant more information about what is causing these deaths?

I suspect you misunderstood the parent's point. Not being mind-boggling doesn't imply we should ignore it.