The morning  New York Times  provided the following graphics: To quote the  NYT ,  slowly getting less terrible .  Note that hospitalizations come a week after the infection, and deaths another week later.  Thus, the decline in new deaths has not yet occurred...but should. However, schools have just opened, people are packing football stadia and indoor entertainment is increasing.  I fear that new deaths will not drop much below 1000/day for the rest of the month or two and maybe more. Here is a  NYT  article on world vaccinations  you can actually read.   I'd swear the U.S. hit the 50% vaccination rate a month ago.  Well, we are seem stuck at 54% fully vaccinated.  If you glance at the full world table, we rank around #40.  The laggards in our country are the less educated and Republicans.  Another graph: There are other countries with much lower vaccination rates, but there doesn't seem to be any correlation with the deaths/million people rate ( right column ):     UAE