Can appreciate vixen affected patterns are hard to tease out with all this. Not helped by things like overstretched healthcare services, strikes by staff (ambulance workers here in England today) and cold weather together with some people not heating their homes well due to rising costs. I can confirm UK has seen a rise in excess death percentages in the last 2 weeks of 2022, especially in private homes (latest stats here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending30december2022 )