"Based on NVSS data, excess deaths have occurred every week in the United States since March 2020. An estimated 299,028 more persons than expected have died since January 26, 2020; approximately two thirds of these deaths were attributed to COVID-19."
Note the word "attributed." So the "|excess" numbers are only 200,000 and god knows how many had serious comorbidities?
But more importantly, the article admits that "different methods or models for estimating the expected numbers of deaths might lead to different results." In other words, the calculation of what is "excess"n can easily be tweaked.
Finally there is this weird anomaly: "adults aged 25–44 years have experienced the largest average percentage increase in the number of deaths from all causes from late January through October 3, 2020" THAT MAKES NO SENSE...because these folks are not terribly vulnerable to COVID. So what else is killing them?