How bad are the  numbers in the U.S . for new cases/day and new deaths/day?  World Bank information for 2022: January 10  1.4 million new cases and 2,014 new deaths March 31        12,000    new cases and    516 new deaths May 11         163,335    new cases and    949 new deaths May 13           95,937    new cases and    393 new deaths From  Worldometer :  for the U.S. Total cases two weeks ago      546,732 Total cases the past week        498,640 Weekly case % change           -9% Total deaths two weeks ago        2,225 Total deaths the past week          1,544 Weekly death % change         -31% Other interesting info from that  Worldometer  site: #2 in cases was Germany.  They dropped in cases 24% and deaths 2% #3 in cases was Taiwan.  They jumped in cases 83% and deaths 192% #4 in cases was Australia.  They increased in cases 20% and had no change in deaths #5 in cases was Japan.  They increased in cases 54% and deaths 17% These countries increased in number of cases: Botswana  46

According to the Bangkok Pos t today, two luxury nightclubs in town, Krystal and Emerald, are the epicenters of new COVID-19 outbreaks: Thailand went for months without a confirmed case of local transmission, but the epidemic has now radiated from luxury nightclubs that cater to powerful and wealthy men to the warrens of slums that hug Bangkok’s highways and railroad tracks. In these cramped quarters, social distancing is impossible. Infections have also spread to prisons, construction camps and factories. Among the newly infected from those nightclubs, an ambassador, government minister, police in the area and, of course, the women who worked there. When I traveled to Thailand in February of 2020, they were #2 to China in number of cases.  Over the next few months they fell to #120.   Yesterday, with 2817 new cases and 36 deaths, they rose to #80 in total cases. However, their deaths/million is 170, while that of the USA is 1840. Hawaii at 355 deaths/million is lowest of all the stat