The problem is not the virus itself but instead it’s impact on the availability of medical care. If you wish to talk about statistics the death rate associated

The problem is not the virus itself but instead it’s impact on the availability of medical care. If you wish to talk about statistics the death rate associated with the virus is declining in the US even though the numbers of infection are surging. That is because medical services are better learning what treatments are effective. The death rate will continue to decline inversely to the growth of infection rate only so long as medical treatment is available. The real problems occur when medicine is over whelmed by the case volume, particularly when hospital beds fill up. When hospitals lack the space to provide appropriate care and triage is when the associated death rate shoots up from declining below 0.1% to over 10% (greater than 100x). Quality and availability of care impacts all medicine. For example appendicitis is an easily treatable and relatively common medical problem in the US, but without available care the patient will die of a blood infection. If that example is not properly triaged due to lost medical capacity then it shifts from a minor concern to a potentially fatal problem.