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Re: Coronavirus
Doesn't seem like so long ago that we had people looking at the numbers here and Europe and wondering what they were doing right and we weren't.
Obviously it remains to be seen whether this will still be the case, but the numbers in England seem to be held under control and have for a while, this is despite very few restrictions at all, and according to the various data the cases are still very much in school kids (though the latest report last night showed more that it was primary kids not secondary who were getting it now - possibly as more secondary kids have either had it or had a jab) and that the figures in adults are still relatively low. Assuming this trend continues (and we would have presumably seen the effect before half term) it will probably eventually burn itself out.
Yet Austria are clearly having issues with hospitalisations as I seem to recall their people mentioning it as a metric in the unvaccinated lockdown, which doesn't appear to have made much difference, not that they have really given it chance to. Germany are also struggling as are other countries such as Belgium which are now recording relative case loads much higher than the UK and which are also growing in a concerning fashion as opposed to fluctuating around going up and down a bit like the UK's figures are.
Unless they have some serious issues with the vaccines simply not working, or a variant we don't know about yet, as opposed to there simply being a large number of unvaccinated people in these places, it would be interesting to see what has gone wrong over there.
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