Amazingly enough, China, with more than 1.4 billion people, just reported its first new COVID-19 deaths in more than a year yesterday:        Country       Population      New Deaths    Per Million China          1,439 million         2                  0.0014 Hong Kong        7.6 m          249                32.8  World         7,900 m            3846                  0.5 USA              327 m              327                 1.0 Russia           146 m              495                 3.4 S. Korea          51 m              319                 6.3 Chile               19 m               101                 5.3 Of course, Hong Kong is part of China, so if you add those 2 + 249 new deaths, the new deaths/million population figure for the country is only 0.17. So how do COVID-19 deaths compare to total deaths per day?    Country      Population       COVID  Deaths      Ratio China      1.44 billion          251      30,373      0.0083 India       1.41 billion          129      28,279 

I will get into the truth about zoonoses later.  Here is a nice graphic about pandemic deaths .  Considering the current world population ( 7.6 billion compared to 0.4 billion in 1300 ) and how travel-connected humanity is today, the 3.2 million COVID-19 deaths pale in comparison to what has happened in the past. The CDC yesterday announced that masks need not anymore be worn in most settings ( including bars and restaurant s) by those who have been inoculated.  They now encourage travel.  Yet, there remain controls in nursing homes, hospitals, plus public transport and airports.   State governors have the final say, so you would think Hawaii with about the lowest incidence of cases because we are protected by the Pacific Ocean would now open up everything?  Well, we have a particularly cautious governor who happens to also be an engineer.  Wouldn't be surprised if masks will still be generally encouraged for all. Just about when the CDC took action, the New York Yankees reported

  From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9    1093     4732       1185        246       82 July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120      572 Aug    12     1504     6556        1242       835      130 Sept     9     1208      6222       1136      1168       82 Oct     21     1225      6849         571       703       85 Nov    25     2304    12025        620       518      118 Dec     30     3880    14748       1224       299     465 Jan      14       4142    15512        1151        189      712                  Feb      3       4005   14265       1209       107     398 Mar     2        1989     9490       1726       110      194           17        1289      9736        2736       171       74            24         936    10206       3158       277       55           25        1405   10470       2244       249      121   Summary:  What?  Hopefully not another wave for the USA. Yesterd