> Deaths didn't budge. At all. The plot doesn't show that. You're looking at the moving average which doesn't move much, but the underlying data (daily, presum

> Deaths didn't budge. At all. The plot doesn't show that. You're looking at the moving average which doesn't move much, but the underlying data (daily, presumably) shows a drastic increase in the last one or two data points, in line with the expected lag time. Others have already pointed out the other major issue with your comment, that the situation in South Africa doesn't transfer to many other places in the world due to the exceptionally high pre-existing immunity rate there.