I recently posted about the US telling citizens to avoid travel to Japan. That may be a reasonable policy but, just to put it in perspective, take a look at the COVID-19 cases per million in this graph. The US is finally getting close to Japan’s level. Of course, an important difference now is that vaccination levels are much lower here. Still, in terms of numbers, the gap between the two countries has only recently closed.

– Kirk

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases