If the 2% mortality rate is accurate if it got loose in General US population it would kill many times more then 10,000 people.
I agree with you to an extent.
I understand that there was no Coronavirus vaccine when it was discovered (escaped from a lab?) a few months back. One claim said that it would be a year before vaccine was available if I remember correctly.
But now we see things like the following.
California lab says it discovered Coronavirus vaccine in 3 hours
Yes, mortality threat is still real.