Anyone can look up the numbers.

Cumulative CoVID-19 deaths in the US:

  * 31 December 2021: 848k
  * 17 March 2022: 997k

That's nearly 150k deaths since New Years.

The Omicron wave this winter was extremely deadly, but people have gotten used to a high level of death and the public messaging in the US has been that Omicron is mild / the pandemic is basically over.

With or in the proximity of, not of. Numbers are vastly inflated incidental admissions conflation

No, of, and these numbers are very likely to be underestimates.

Excess mortality studies generally show larger death tolls than recorded CoVID-19 deaths.

US life expectancy has dropped by 2 years because of CoVID-19, which is completely unprecedented in the post-WWII era.