Deaths are climbing again in the US and are expected to be above where they were the same time last year within a couple weeks.

It's still lower than the peak of 3300 (7-day average) during the winter season, and that's when we had 250k cases daily. We're almost at 150k daily cases, but with only 1k daily deaths. At least based purely on numbers, the CFR is lower. The CFR is lower because most of the infections are happening in younger people.

They're less likely to refuse on political grounds.

We vaccinated all the old people, who were the population most at risk for death the first time.