If someone is infected and requires medical treatment, is treatment available? All other measures, including positive test count trends and death counts have too many variables to really be meaningful.

Infection count trends are impacted by number of tests, who is being tested, etc. We will see a spike in cases again soon, college kids are going back and are being tested at huge rates. Is that bad? By itself it is meaningless and it completely skews trend lines because you've changed a fundamental variable in the trend.

Death rates, again. Who is infected? Get an outbreak in a nursing home and you get a spike.

What matters is, are those that need medical care to avoid death or serious impact able to get it. If yes and they die, then there wasn't really anything else that could be done at this point. If no, we have a problem. Every report I see says treatment is available and has been since the initial onset outside a few places like NYC which made terrible policy decisions that drove up the infection rates and thus deaths of highly vulnerable populations (remember, the whole flatten the curve to keep from overwhelming the medical system).