That said and agreed to, we focus so much on deaths that we forget the other things a bad case can do: permanent organ damage, stroke, disability... I can't recommend this lady's story enough: 

Voices from the Pandemic: How long can a heart last like this?’ Darlene Krawetz, on what life becomes when covid-19 won’t go away

Until the medical "profession" has more time to figure this critter out and how to better treat it's multitudinous ramifications it's a real crap shoot to even get treated for it, along the lines of "first, do no harm." They are doing their best, deserve the "heroes" thing for the old college try, but it's little more than witch doctoring at most places right now.

Often enough the ones with the most experience at treating it, who would have the most intuitive abilities to recognize what it might be doing to one body or another and how to counteract it, they are falling prey themselves! 

This is precisely where the "flatten the curve" thing is most valuable > allowing the medical practitioners to handle it more slowly, one by one, learning as they go. The later you get it, the more knowledge they have, the better off you are.

Is precisely why I think all rmrd's stats about minorities access to care and testing, etc. are folly at this point. Those whypipple who have insurance and are being admitted to the hospital right now? They are mostly getting shit care, maybe shittier than those that are staying home. Some are being killed by the wrong treatment. Too soon to study anything like that! Makes no sense. Show me stats how many people are coming out of those hospitals and with attentive providers are faring first. I betcha not that impressive, nothing to yearn for yet. I'll give that a most hospitals (but most probably not at most nursing homes, where it's likely there's a ton of awful suffering going on away from prying eyes of family) people are at least getting palliative care, which they wouldn't at home I.E., if they are hooked up to the wrong machine, at least they're getting pain meds along with that...and there's someone there to put them on Facetime once in a while and feed them something whether intravenous or whatever.