Europe accounted for 59 percent of the worldâs newly reported coronavirus cases last week, and for nearly half the worldâs Covid-related deaths, Hans Kluge, the W.H.O.âs director for the 53 countries in its European region, told reporters.
Dr. Kluge said that there were 1.8 million new cases and about 24,000 deaths in the European region in the past week.
âWe are at another critical point of pandemic resurgence,â Dr. Kluge said. âEurope is back at the epicenter of the pandemic â where we were one year ago.â
The region is reporting an average of more than 30 new cases a day for every 100,000 people, a rate that has almost doubled since mid-September. Eighteen of the 20 countries around the world that are reporting the most new cases per day, relative to their populations, are in Europe or the part of Central Asia that the W.H.O. includes in its European region.
The CDC is reporting just under 3/4 of a million total COVID-19 deaths. Some websites are reporting a higher number. Some forecasts suggest that total deaths in the USA from the virus will soon reach 780,000.
Assume for the sake of discussion that total deaths reach close to or go over 1 million Americans in total sometime in the first half of 2022. That is a salient number. How will this play in the traditional media and social media?
Will the hold outs start getting vaccines? Will more Americans start taking seriously social measures to reduce the spread of the virus? (Vaccine passports, masks and distancing in specific circumstances, etc.)
How will this play out politically? Will the current polarization become even more accentuated? Or will we observe a stronger social consensus on how to manage this pandemic?
Sure, there are many countries that have done just as bad or worse in coping with the pandemic than the USA. I simply expect developments and the ensuing 'discussion' in the USA to have more influence on global attitudes and opinions than other countries. Hence the questions.
So, Ireland, population 5million, has 400 hospitalized with Delta. Unvaccinated that number would be closer to 6000 and for longer, using US rates, roughly.
what's this about? "In a heterologous priming schedule, the second dose uses a different vaccine product than the first dose. By contrast, heterologous boosting refers to the administration of a vaccine from a different vaccine platform from the vaccine that was used to complete the primary vaccine series."
what's this about? "In a heterologous priming schedule, the second dose uses a different vaccine product than the first dose. By contrast, heterologous boosting refers to the administration of a vaccine from a different vaccine platform from the vaccine that was used to complete the primary vaccine series."
