Health experts warn USA should learn from Europe’s cowardly mistakes US News



Covid-19 is a death knell and simplifies restrictions and open vaccinations for young people so optimism is rife in the U.S. Spread in But across Europe, fears are rife with another wave of infections, closing schools and cafes and bringing in new lockdowns.

Epidemic diversion routes on two continents are part of the U.S. Can be linked to more rapid vaccine rollouts and further spread of infectious infections in Europe.

U.S. Health experts in Europe, however, say that what has happened in Europe should be warned against repealing safety as soon as possible, as the U.S. In already many similar types are spread at low levels.

“Each of these countries now has nadirs, and after ignoring well-known mitigation strategies, everyone took a ward-negative approach,” said the U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The director of the centers, Dr. Said Rochelle Walenski. “They just took their eyes off the ball.”

The result in the last few weeks has been a sharp increase in new infections and hospitalizations in many European countries.

Poland’s new Covid-19 case rate has doubled since February, its health care system has been strained and a three-week nationwide lockdown has been announced for shopping malls, theaters, galleries and sports centers on Wednesday.

Italy closed most of its classrooms earlier this week and extended areas where restaurants and cafes could only make withdrawals or deliveries. The country’s health experts say they are increasing the number of middle-aged and older patients.

In France, authorities have imposed a lockdown over the weekend around the French Riviera in the south and the English Channel in the north, and are preparing new sanctions for the Paris area and beyond. Covid-19 patients occupy 100% standard intensive care hospital beds in the area around the country’s capital.

A pedestrian crosses the courtyard in front of the Louvre Museum in Paris as France prepares for a new downfall.
A pedestrian crosses the courtyard in front of the Louvre Museum in Paris as France prepares for a new downfall. Photograph: Chaznot / Getty Images

Serbia announced a nationwide lockdown for the rest of the week, shutting down all essential shops and businesses. The country of millions of people reported more than 5,000,000 new cases on Tuesday, the highest number in a month.

By comparison, U.S. In new infections and hospital admissions patients are slowing down, as well as the country has suffered the worst mortality in the world. More than 53,377,000 Americans have died since the outbreak began.

U.S. Deaths averaged 1,300 per day, down from a low of about 3,400 in January. At the same time, about 55,000 people are newly infected each day, a much lower rate than the quarter-million people who became infected every day in early January.

Still, new infections and hospital admissions appear to have reached plateau a little below the peak of the infection in the summer of 2020, at a time when most of the coronavirus sun belt had moved from Florida to Southern California.

“Every time we make a new and unprecedented increase in this epidemic, we quickly normalize it,” Kumi Smith, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, told Vox.

Further, Texas and Mississippi have re-emptied the mask command and capability limits in most public settings of life, even though the forms that capture Europe are found to be spreading there. Meanwhile, the airlines have had their best weeks since the epidemic began and say more people are booking flights for spring and summer.

“Vaccination without speed limits, 24/7, will protect us from what is happening in Europe,” said Dr. Mash Adalaja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore, Maryland.

Adalaja said he believes it is too early for states to give up mask mandates but that restaurants and other venues could begin to gradually increase capacity. “You don’t have to do what Texas did,” Adalaja said. “You can increase the capacity by keeping the mask in place.”

The state of Texas shares a drink on a patio at 5015 bars.
The state of Texas shares its drink on the patio at 5015 bars. Photograph: Kolaghan O’Hare / Reuters

Vaccine shortages and other hurdles have led to EU and UK vaccinations. Is far behind. U.S. About one in five people in the U.S. has received at least one dose of the vaccine, while in most European countries, it is less than one in 10, out of three authorized vaccines in the U.S., two require a two-dose regime.

Josh Michaud, associate director of global health policy with the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, said Europe’s “rapid relaxation of distance requirements in many places, along with populations, leaves their guards down as they look toward the end of the light.” The long epidemic tunnel helped set the stage for current surgeries. “

Some European countries, including Germany, France, Spain and Italy, have suspended the use of the Covid-19 vaccine against AstraZeneca. The U.S. has not authorized the AstraZeneca vaccine, although it has controversially entered into a purchase agreement for 100 million doses.

Biden is pushing all states to eliminate vaccination eligibility requirements by May 1. Eliminating eligibility criteria will vaccinate almost all adults and children over 16 years of age. Most vaccine doses purchased by the federal government are expected to be delivered in early July.

Despite the high case rate, increasing vaccine availability and declining infection rates have led to U.S. There is a sense of cautious optimism and new hope.

The Covid-19 intensive care unit closed at Mission Hospital in Mission Vizo, California, takes an empty way inside and a row of unused facial ieldall, telling the story of improved vision. Earlier in the year, the wing was filled with Covid-19 patients.

“It gives me gossip,” said Christina Anderson, an ICU nurse. “It’s really just surreal because, you know, a month ago, our unit was full of super, super sick covid patients, many of whom couldn’t survive.”