I think that may be a result of the change in demographics of who is getting infected. The 20-30 yo crowd that seems to be the bulk of cases now has a very low risk of hospitalizations and death.Bruce Almighty said:
So are cases going up, but deaths going down? In Springfield, where I live, we had 8 deaths during the shutdown with the last being on April 9th. Since we've reopened in early May, the number of cases have more than doubled, yet we are still sitting at 8 deaths. It just seems odd that we had 8 deaths in the first three weeks of our first case and zero in the last nine weeks.
I think it hit a number of vulnerable high risk people early before they went into isolation which made it look really bad. Now it is the lower risk groups that are getting it.