One thing I noticed, there's an independent stats tracker, Knoema (first link), put the crude death rate in the US for 2020 at 8.95 per 1000, which is only a 1.19% growth over 2019, and only .07/1000 higher than projected in 2019, according to macrotrend (second link)
In 2020, crude death rate for United States of America was 6.98 deaths per thousand population. Crude death rate of United States of America fell gradually from 22.49 deaths per thousand population in 1971 to 6.98 deaths per thousand population in 2020. Number of deaths over a given period...
knoema.com
Chart and table of the U.S. death rate from 1950 to 2024. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.
www.macrotrends.net
According to Knoema's death rate, that puts total deaths at around 2,950,000 for the US in 2020.
The CDC is claiming 3.36 million deaths in 2020 in the US. They also claim 375,000 covid deaths in 2020. If you subtract the supposed covid deaths from the total deaths reported by the CDC, that brings you pretty close to the death rate reported by Knoema.
The age-adjusted death rate increased by 15.9% in 2020. Overall death
www.cdc.gov
Things that make you go hmmmm.....