Hang on Rox, your figures don’t mean much, let me show you
946 deaths per million people is 0.0946% (just under 0.1%… or 1 in 1000 people SO FAR), but that’s not the figure for how many people who caught this coronovirus then went on to die from it, that figure was first thought to be around 1.3 per hundred (1.3%) but with some small advances in medical care 0.7 per hundred (0.7%). Remember that 10,000 people per million = 1%.
Now because we also have people who get infected but show no symptoms & who are never diagnosed, we can further guess at lower figures for the deaths, and with more testing we’ll get the figure down some more.
From the 0.7 to 1.3% death rate we could go further as was done early on & predict that about 10% of the population has had COVID so far, but throw in the asymptomatic people & it’ll be a lot more.
What we can tell from this is that each successive peak in infections will have a shallower slope IF people retain immunity. The current rise here in the UK has a much shallower slope than the rise back in March, and that’s a combination of people who are likely now immune, plus, measures such as the extra hand washing, masks, etc., making it more difficult for the virus to find new people to infect.
But, for every person who dies from COVID there are others who are damaged & survive disabled.