The uptick in cases is going to be fighting a strong tide of vaccination, and already widespread natural immunity.
There does not seem to be much more dry tinder laying around for a big fire to burn out of control, after this Winter’s big spread.
Most of the high contact people have probably already been exposed.
Most of the most vulnerable have already had a first shot of vaccine - 72.8% of Americans 65 or older. Essentially all Nursing Home residents have been fully vaccinated.
So cases are not going to pack the kind of fatality rates that they did in the past.
COVID’s legs are getting wobbly - soon it will be going down for the count in the USA.
There is talk of mutations that would nullify the vaccines. Then the burden of booster shots would be necessary before another variant comes along. Wait until a variant comes along that is more deadly.