Approximately 0.25% of NYC's entire population has died of COVID, which is significantly more than die of the seasonal flu.
Edit: seriously asking questions.
>I don’t get it. I found that there so far have been covid 234,133 deaths [0] and season flu can cause up to 646,000 deaths [1].
9-44x is 6-28 million covid deaths this year. Is this the number you think is likely?
Different regions have been infected to different degrees; in the worst hit areas like New York City up to 25% of the population may have caught it by now, but in many (most?) regions less than 1% of the population has been exposed so far.
> What model shows we aren’t near peak death now?
The question is, "What are you modeling?" Are you modeling what happens if the pandemic is contained at this point, and infection rates stay constant, or are you modeling a fast or slow spread to "herd immunity" (currently estimated at 85% of the population catching it)? In some situations, sure, it's almost over, in others, holy shit, it hasn't really started yet, this is the calm before the storm.