COVID-19 deaths per day in the USA, monthly, as reported:
Mar 138
Apr 1,961
May 1,330
Jun 769
Jul 851
Aug 955
Sep 779
Oct 763.
The Oct 2020 rate would still exact a heavy toll if sustained over 365 days, 278,495 deaths.
COVID-19 deaths in 2020 at 230k are already the third leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease deaths at 647,457 and cancer deaths at 599,108 in 2017.
The Oct 2020 rate shows that the lockdowns, even if extended too long in some places, provided the medical community with valuable breathing room in which to learn how to improve survivability and deliver it, in combination with social distancing, mask-wearing, testing, and tracing.
