Rate of new US corona virus deaths to new cases -
.006
3M confirmed cases; likely 30M infected.
Over 130K dead Americans.
16K hospitalized in serious condition who might die.
Transmission last week at highest levels yet.
IF starting March 15 there was a serious lockdown and mask wearing and responsible national gov't coordinating that, then June 1st-15 we could have started a gradual reopening. Things would be pretty much back to normal by now, though with large gatherings off limits and mask wearing still recommended. 3M Americans wouldn't have been sick enough to get tested for CV-19 and 100K or more wouldn't have died.
It was possible. US had a lot of warning. Saw the January outbreak in China and the Italian outbreak in February, knew it was coming.
Instead US will hit 3M confirmed cases today. That's 1/4 of the world total. US with more than 1/3 of the word's active confirmed CV cases. And US also has 1/4 of the world's CV deaths (though Russia, Iran, Pakistan and some others almost certainly underreporting their deaths).