We are facing a pandemic about which, if we know anything, it is that its effects are much worse than we initially thought.

This is utter bullshit. In month one the fatality rate was “between 3%–10%”. Now we under 1% and its worse than we thought? I had to go back and check the date this was written, sometimes Medium feeds me old articles but that’s not it. I can’t figure out what you are actually writing about.

they have been lucky enough to survive.

A 99% survival rate is luck? What they hell are you reading?