I’ve read speculation that regular death rates are likely to fall as we go further into the year. Covid-19 just sped up the process by a few months for some unfortunate souls...
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said at a news briefing from the United Nations agency’s Geneva headquarters. “It’s very rare.””