50,000 deaths per year in USA from plain old pneumonia, not related to flu or Corona.
20,000 to 30,000 additional deaths in influenza years.
Be aware these deaths, which have NOTHING to do with Corona virus will be lumped in with it for sensationalism and shock value in news stories.
Corona virus infections and death statistics MUST BE viewed as verified STAND ALONE numbers.
That would require testing. And that hasn’t happened on any scale in the US yet.
Someone, I missed the identification, was predicting that 40 to 70% of all US adults would eventually catch the coronavirus. Currently the death rate seems to be between 2 and 3%. If good US medical care cuts it to 1/2 of 1% or .5%, then we could still be looking at 500,000 to 1,000,000 deaths. I heard they are now checking some prior flu cases and deaths therefrom to see if it might have been Covid-19, especially in the upper northwest where some who were sick had no explaining exposure. They are considering that Covid-19 had already been here a little while.