Your last sentence is not true, as this article in the BMJ shows: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3348. In the first wave there were ~60k excess deaths, the majority directly caused by C19; since week 25 we’ve been slightly below or at the 2015-19 mean but we are now above that mean again, and on a rising trend, the reason being directly and unequivocally C19.