15k deaths a week is 780,000 deaths a year. The Global death rate over the last 70 years has hovered around 50-55 million a year [0], which puts this particular death rate around a 1.5% of global deaths. Frankly, at 7.7 Billion people on this planet and a birth rate that is over double the annual death rate, 15k additional deaths a week is the proverbial pocket change.
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths