Cumulative deaths remain low, relatively speaking, and so far seem to be confined to mostly people with underlying medical problems.
I am more worried about a flu variant which has the apparent communicability of this strain with more lethal results, which could occur in a subsequent wave. The last four pandemic flu variants started with a mild wave in the spring followed by a much more serious one in the late summer or fall.
With that pattern in mind, I would reccommend stocking the pantry and the medicine chest with a couple to a few week's extra, and acquiring some degree of being able to deal with interruptions in essential services, be that loss of electrical power, central heat, etc. this fall.
These are good things to have, anyway, and stocking up on what you feel is necessary can be done ahead of the rush (taking advantage of sales). If you get things you will use anyway, it will not go to waste. YMMV.
Our current 'on demand' inventory system cannot handle surges in demand well (witness the scarcity of many calibers of ammunition, even now) and ordinarily commmonplace items might be very difficult to come by in a pinch.
And no, I do not sell 'survival" items, literature, 'kits', nor do I have a website, so I am not reccommending doing this for personal gain of any sort.
The more people who are in a position to not panic, the less power the Obamites will have over us all if there is a major problem. While they might be masters at exploiting a crisis, I have little faith in their ability to actually deal with one.
There were no .22 caliber pistols ~ only rifles. There were stacks of clay pigeons but no 20 gauge shotgun shells ~ some 12 gauge.
Pretty thin pickings on everything else.
On the other hand they had plenty of pump pellet guns AND, best part, stacks of crossbows, and racks decked with huge heaping clumps of slingshots.
Part of the logic of any weapon is that it should be useful in the face of societal collapse ~ either from war, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, or whatever. The big weapons with the pallet loads of ammo have their purpose, of course, but so does a slingshot. It's silent and doesn't run out of ammo. It will feed you when the other more sophisticated weapons will scare away the game.
A good baseball bat can help you "move up the food chain" too ~ enabling you to acquire better weapons and more ammunition as you migrate out of the area of the disaster.
I'm jus' sayin'.