Horribly sad. Given the case rate, I would expect the daily death rates to be a bit higher. A few months ago the US had a few days > 4K:
> A few months ago the US had a few days > 4K:
Note that this was with 9 million active cases (official). According to official numbers, india is at 2.5, yet already reaching 2200 daily deaths.
And if you look at the correlation between daily deaths and active cases, the daily death maximums occur around the inflexion point in case growth (either peaking for the 1st and 3rd surges, or plateauing of the 2nd).
The same occurred in India with their first wave (active cases peaked mid-september, so did deaths). Right now it's shooting straight up, they've already smashed through the US' maximum daily new cases, and the US reached theirs as the DNC's increase was slowing down.
We are now well over a year into this pandemic. The original justification for the lockdowns in the US was "15 days to slow the spread," i.e. that we would self quarantine to buy time to add ICU capacity, secure PPE and supplies for hospitals, etc. Instead ICU capacity was kept flat and economy-wide hospital staff were reduced and we were told "nope, keep doing this until we have a vaccine."
Is there a single country in the world that has actually beefed up ICU capacity and secured basic supplies like oxygen for itself?
In 1918 Spanish flu time, 5% of India died from what I read.
> Confirmed deaths from the coronavirus also broke an Indian record Thursday, with 2,104 fatalities recorded in the previous 24 hours. But deaths too may be drastically undercounted, because many of the people dying outside hospitals never got tested.