what does the 'peak' actually mean?

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Does the peak mean , thousands of people will become symptomatic after carrying the virus for 2 weeks ? or does the peak mean, thousands of people will die? My anxiety is unbelievably high at the moment,

if I have been inside for around 1.5 weeks, what are the chances of me becoming symptomatic and getting it and dying?

I am so scared.

There is a peak for cases and a peak for deaths

Deaths lag peak cases probably by 2 weeks

Symptoms appear anything from 2 to 14 days as far as I can tell

But peak just means that the numbers dying each day starts to go down rather than up, and it takes a while for that number to approach zero

China are there, their new cases seem to be imported only

Probability of dying is currently very low. Although deaths big numbers, they are tiny in population terms