Cases numbers increasing is meaningless.
Death rate is what matters and the number of people that have died from COVID alone is close to if not the same rate as those who died from influenza.
U.S. Hits Highest 1-Day Toll From Coronavirus With 3,054 Deaths in one dayCases numbers increasing is meaningless.
Death rate is what matters and the number of people that have died from COVID alone is close to if not the same rate as those who died from influenza.
Mortality Risk of COVID-19
This page has a number of charts on the pandemic. In the box below you can select any country you are interested in – or several, if you want to compare countries.ourworldindata.org
The secondary attack rate for symptomatic index cases was 18.0% (95% CI 14.2%-22.1%), and the rate of asymptomatic and presymptomatic index cases was 0.7% (95% CI 0%-4.9%), “although there were few studies in the latter group.” The asymptomatic/presymptomatic secondary attack rate is not statistically different from zero, and the confidence interval is technically 0.7 ± 4.2, resulting in a range of -3.5%-4.9%, but attack rates cannot be negative, so it is truncated at 0.