China had it first and arguably for one complete year depending on news one considers. Looking around the world death numbers due to covid are down everywhere, every place, that has had this for at least 6mths or so. I mean deaths are drastically down in these regions, by a factor of around 1/5 of the original wave. Only countries that have been seeing huge numbers in the last few months or so are seeing huge daily death tolls now.
Even in Europe, here, deaths are very limited now even though the Europe case numbers are exploding.
What I suspect is that built tolerance starts to occur in populations through gradual exposure to deactivated covid virus particles, or maybe brief esposures, sub infection load exposures etc. It seems, like with other coronavirus before, the level of seriousness of the condition trails off.
Even in Alberta, in Edmonton, while infection numbers are raging ICU placements and deaths are not. Deaths primarily occuring in hospital or Seniors home environments where load infection of the virus transferred could be immense.
China had some right ideas including having specialized Covid 19 medical facilities to isolate treatments and not spread it in med facilities. We should have done that here.
Our Seniors homes are disasters of service and have been for years. This, and the deplorable conditions have existed for decades. They've been reported, examined, many times before. Maybe this time there will be political will to provide adequate and humane care to our seniors.