Opinion by Richard Sternberg, M.D. A return to normalcy after COVID? It appears the summer surge of COVID-19 in the United States is abating. Numbers are going down except in the hardest hit states. The average number of deaths last week was approximately 1,800 per day and the number of daily infections is about 100,000. These seem to be trending down but if they flare up again and represent averages over the long-term we are talking about 675,000 deaths per…