The drop in global new infections has stalled in the past month, in part because more contagious variants are now spreading widely. This pattern can be clearly observed in the US, where the seven-day average of new cases in the US is decreasing albeit at a slowing rate, around 60,000, while the seven day average in Europe remains at around 62,000. As BofA notes, the increasing spread of new, more contagious variants appears to be slowing the effect from restrictions and the vaccine roll-out.
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WNU Editor: This is quite an accomplishment. Especially since it was only two months ago that most experts were predicting herd immunity being reached by the end of this year (see January BBC map below).
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All of the stans are in the red except for Kazakhstan. Maybe Pakistan and the other stans would not be deep red, if Pakistan would not be fomenting war for a quarter of a century.
I would have thought Chile would have been mid 2021, since we are vaccinating at about 200.000 a day, 4.5M already done out of 15M (population 19M), and has one of the worlds top 5 programs.
Maybe it is an oversight. Maybe Goldman Sachs is gaming the system.
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