/sci/ - Science & Math

I have been seeing news articles on excess deaths due to cerebrovascular, diabetes, other circulatory diseases and ‘unknown deaths’ almost every morning.
After hearing about the 20% increase in excess deaths in first world countries such as Australia, UK and the United States it seems like there must be an answer to this? How did we pump so much money into research yet we didn’t seem to record anything that could explain why this is happening?
And why were there like below average respiratory deaths for the past 3 years?
My thoughts on this are
- It’s the vaccine (though how does this even happen?)
- COVID virus was the cause of these vascular diseases
- Peoples stress, insomnia etc over the pandemic caused more people to die from these vascaulr disease

Has anyone had anyone they know randomly drop? Did they have any psychological problems beforehand?
https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.01103