Less than that were dying, I think ICU and vents stayed under 10 and the rest were just taking up space and oxygen.
Our hospital system in the US just doesn't have elastic capacity. The hospitals run pretty thin in order to stay in business. Pre covid you might have 20 flu patients in a bad year, 40 -50 Rona patients screws it all up. Locally our busy season is summer when millions of retarded tourist flock to Montana and do stupid things. So they staff heavy with seasonal workers that migrate from AZ or Hawaii for the summer and go back home in the winter for their winter tourist seasons. The hospitals staff based on historic numbers and run on <5% margin, so there isn't much buffer.
Rona is putting 2x-3x the people in the hospital as the flu, which isn't a lot but enough to fuck up the system. And it the Rona comes in waves, it's hard to staff for that even if you make the beds available. So as a country we either vax or pay up for more staffing, but the current
system can't handle it even as small of number as it is. Places like Hawaii have even worse hospital systems than like Montana or Idaho.