I incorrectly quoted their death rate global standing: there are some 27 countries with higher covid death rate than the US.
My understanding in reference to your comment re compensation: suggests there is monetary incentive to mis-classify hospital records. I would add there may be additional manipulation of covid hospital data for which CDC is suspect.
Recently, in the WaPO they commented on deaths, hospitalization, infections are increasing in triple vaccinated (booster dose).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2022/vaccine-protection-was-much-weaker-against-omicron-cdc-data-shows/