COVID-19 cases rising in Western Europe

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Nearly two years into a global health crisis that has killed more than 5 million people, infections are again sweeping across parts of Western Europe. 9News

are much higher — that still leaves a significant portion of their populations without protection.

Thanks largely to vaccination, hospitals in Western Europe are not under the same pressure they were earlier in the pandemic, but many are still straining to handle rising numbers of COVID patients while also attempting to clear backlogs of tests and surgeries with exhausted or sick staff. "I think the era of locking people up in their homes is over because we now have tools to control COVID — the testing, vaccines and therapeutics," said Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh.Many European countries now use COVID passes — proof of full vaccination, recovery from the virus or a negative test result — to access venues like bars and restaurants.

"We have a real emergency situation right now," said Christian Drosten, the head of virology at Berlin's Charite Hospital, which has started cancelling scheduled surgeries. FILE - A face mask left on Roemerberg square in Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 6, 2021. The pandemic is again roaring across parts of Western Europe, a prosperous region with relatively high vaccination rates and good health care systems but where lockdown measures to rein in the virus are largely a thing of the past. Germany, along with parts of France and areas of Eastern Europe, is a good example of what happens when you have widespread reluctance to vaccination.

 

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in 2021 for Australia we've had 400 covid related deaths and 633 vaccine deaths screenshot added from Are you contributing to these deaths with the misinformation you're pushing? How many lives have to be lost before you at least mention this? SHAME ON U

But VACCINE? maybe change the time till booster shot to every Monday?

Thats great news...

5 milions deaths is lower than infeccions death historical average

Meh let em sweep

And Governments around the world are too piss weak to hold those responsible for creating the virus to be held accountable or they wanted it to happen to depopulate the world. Which is it?

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