There was little doubt at the beginning of 2021 that we would still be writing about COVID-19 long after the last cork was popped and the last round of “Auld Lang Syne” sung.

As of this writing, 5,481,557 people are believed to have died from the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide, though, with over 300 million currently infected, the fatality rate is rapidly changing.

Those numbers are difficult to grasp.…