Forms of Pandemic Curves: Spike and Done, Spike and Rebound, Mid-Hump and Another

The "Huge Spike" creates the most numbers of deaths, probably due to overwhelmed systems.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/

also some great studies on the 1918 Pandemic
https://www.pnas.org/content/104/18/7313/tab-article-info

I will leave it up to the Intrepid reader to dig the articles (3) related to the link directly above.

I posit with an uncomfortable and somewhat ironic truth....short of a Hail Mary, there needs to be a "Perfect Number of Deaths".