Winter is coming... again. A 4th wave of Covid-19 is hitting Europe and is likely to impact the United States in the coming weeks.
As we can see below, countries in Europe are now setting daily case count records since the pandemic began. This comes even as vaccination rates have climbed to around 70% on the continent according to the European CDC (Link).
What can we take away from this recent uplift?
- Reinforces the idea that there will be a "flu-like" surge of Covid-19 each winter moving forward.
- ~70% vaccination rates in the population do not prevent large scale outbreaks of Covid-19.
- There is no singular solution to combatting this virus and ending the pandemic. We need to continue the fight using multiple tools, including:
- Vaccines
- Anti-Viral drugs (Pfizer's new covid-19 pill is great news on this front: Link)
- Social Distancing
- Increased hygiene across the population
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