Vastly?How deaths are recorded is very important. It's quite common to use deaths within 28 or 60 days of a positive test. With Omicron, that's very ambiguous because so many people will be infected in a short amount of time, that a large majority of "regular" deaths will be included in that count, even if covid had nothing to do with their deaths. Eg let's say 10,000 people die per month regularly. Well now 5,000 will have tested positive for covid recently.
I think a good metric is looking at the mortality rate between vaccinated and unvaccinated. At the moment, unvaccinated people have a vastly higher risk of death. That may change in a couple of weeks as omicron has become the dominant strain.
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