Tens of thousands would be a great outcome actually. Tens of thousands of infections would mean only single to low double digit thousands of deaths - lower than

Tens of thousands would be a great outcome actually. Tens of thousands of infections would mean only single to low double digit thousands of deaths - lower than the flu. 45 million people a year in the US suffer from the flu, and anywhere from 30 to 60 thousand die of complications. 30K dead, therefore, would be "business as usual", as strange as that sounds. Anything lower than that would be "better than usual".