I do not believe the 3.5 national value, who actually be that high here. If you notice, different parts of the world have much higher than 3.5 percent.
Any number higher than 1 is too many and we have already gone over that number in the US.
Thankfully, so far, with the 16+ cases in the DMV do they expect any of those to die, nor has any.
Just because 30 million get the flu every year, mean, 30 million will get the coronavirus.