I disagree.

If we look at the number of infected with the number of deaths we get around a 6% mortality rate. And that number can be anywhere from 2 - 6% simply because we don't know how many people are actually infected.

The flu kills anywhere from 24K to 60K in the US yearly. While covid19 has killed roughly 100K in what, 2 months? Deadlier than the flu.

As for hospitals getting paid. In your own image there. Medicare is paying for those amounts for those that are on Medicare. So that's the elderly and those without insurance. That money is being used to treat people for Covid19. Not if they die. Death counts are not inflated. If anything was to be inflated it would be treatment counts. Also if you have insurance then insurance covers your treatments. So not every patient gets a hospital money from the government.