We hopefully would reach herd immunity far before that point, but even with herd immunity only requiring 70% of Americans to be infected, we're looking at over

We hopefully would reach herd immunity far before that point, but even with herd immunity only requiring 70% of Americans to be infected, we're looking at over 2m fatalities. And that's not even counting the hospitalizations that will be over 20M. What we need to hope for is an unlikely vaccine, or a therapeutic treatment to mitigate the worst of the diseases effects.