The US 7-day average deaths of 714 is now the lowest of the pandemic except post-1st-wave June 17 - July 10 which bottomed at 520 on July 5 and peaked again at 1178 on Aug 4. That is down 39.4% in the 2nd wave.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
We don’t really know what second wave is. The last week had some counting issues out of Louisiana from the hurricane, so all we can do it look at the graphs and see a flattening or at best mild decline.
The problem overall is this. They are essentially all old people. Each year in the US 2 million 65+ ppl die. If the average for the year float at 750 deaths per day (which would require a sharp decline averaged with the Spring) that is 750 X 365 = 273750. That’s a 14% death count increase among the elderly, and without a treatment that can be year after year.
14% is enough to take a year or two off life expectancy for everyone. Society will have to decide if it wants to tolerate that.
Florida just filled in Saturday bumping the average to 727.