The market has failed us in a variety of ways with COVID-19, including not incentivizing pandemic preparedness and domestic production of essential medical equipment. It similarly doesn’t appear to incentivize developing new antibiotics to combat ever-evolving bacteria. Coordinated international efforts to take on both COVID-19 and antibiotic-resistant bacteria would make a lot of sense. I’m sure Jared Kushner is all over it.

As for comparing virus severity to the flu, I appreciate your analysis. To compliment such efforts, I spent a week crunching the key numbers. COVID-19 appears at least 20x worse than average seasonal flu:

https://medium.com/@tysonvictorweems/a-very-table-genius-220a77216419