We have over a thousand deaths a day in the US, now.

From the virus.

More than a half million cases counted. 5.25 million.

167,253 US deaths.

About a 2.3 % fatality rate, estimating the total infected are 1.4 times that case count.

How does the bug stack up, compared to other causes of death in the US?

The US has done far less than most to limit the bug.

But has the world overreacted?

The bug would have to kill nearly 7 hundred thousand a year to become the leading cause of death, ahead of cancer (600 K) and heart disease (650 K).

CDC has the data.

We could get there, if the vaccine takes longer than now hoped.

If 300,000,000 of us were infected at 2.3 % we would have 6.9 million virus dead to add to the deaths likely from all other causes in that time, given the CDC count for the year 2018 of 2.84 million a year.

Spread out over 3 years those 6.9 million would more than double the US annual dead for those years.

Not the Black Death, but still.