I was extrapolating from a death rate similar to Vietnam for the US. Obvious it isn't exact as there are other factors but obesity is the biggest difference...pun intended. At a similar rate we would have only 65K deaths a year from covid. Like you pointed out age may increase that but shouldn't our first rate medical care make a major difference?
By the way Covid has been in the US at least 2 yrs now and probably slightly longer and they figure it started in Sept 2019 in China. We don't case count hardly any other disease in this way HIV would be an exception. They are usually annual deaths not continuous.
As far as death counts we could argue all day about death with and from covid.
Deaths in UK and South Africa hardly budged despite being by far greatest spike of the pandemic. I just love all the vaccinated in blue states are getting it in huge numbers. Maybe they will finally give up on being able to do anything about the pandemic. Similar to how there is essentially nothing we can do about global warming. We have a lot less control than we think.