"Most people who get the virus survive it,"
Understatement of the eon.
In the US, the current number of COVID deaths is about 254K, compared to the number of current known infections, which is about 12 million. That's only about 2% of the infected, and it doesn't even take into account that the fatality rate is even lower for people under 65 years of age and/ or without any pre- existing medical conditions.