I don't doubt this statistic if they're counting people who have died because of the response to covid, which I'm sure is the case. I personally know two people who died due to other health issues because they were too scared to go to the hospital to have anything checked out, two people who died of drug overdoses because they were cut off from their support networks, one person who committed suicide due to loss of their job and, again, a sudden lack of support networks to get them through the difficult time, and one person who had every health issue known to man and who had been living on borrowed time for ages, but their official cause of death is listed as covid because they happened to have had and recovered from it within a month of their death. So yeah, if you factor that sort of crap in, 1 in 3 Americans wouldn't surprise me at all.