US deaths currently stand at 1,704. Why should their epidemic be any different to China, Italy, UK, Spain etc in general form?I think it could end up killing over a million Americans. They are woefully underprepared imo. Staggeringly so.
The frightening aspects are the affects in poorer countries for whom social isolation (our main weapon) may not be as effective. I am only speculating but I feel it will be much harder to protect people by this method in poorer countries.
So far countries have to bring themselves almost to a total halt to stop the infection, otherwise the costs would be catastrophic but so far I think the evidence to date shows that deaths will be low in the advanced countries in comparison to the usual 'flu epidemics.