Global Covid-19 Cases Are Now At An All Time High

Wall Street Journal: Covid-19 Is Still Raging in Much of the World as Global Cases Hit Record Highs 

New variants, pandemic fatigue and easing of lockdowns have virus surging in many countries 

While hopes are rising that a rapid rollout of Covid-19 vaccines is helping to tame the pandemic in the U.S., in much of the world the virus is still surging. 

Covid-19 case rates across the globe are at their highest levels since the start of the pandemic, illustrating the continuing race between vaccinations and the virus and the stiff challenge presented by new variants that are emerging and spreading quickly around the world. 

As of Wednesday, nearly 5.6 million new confirmed cases were reported over the previous week, more than double the level of mid-February, and higher than the previous peak of late December, according to Our World in Data, a project based at Oxford University. 

“There’s this feeling that, we have the vaccine, so it’s over,” said Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. “There’s still a long way for this pandemic to run.”  

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WNU Editor: I live in Canada and we are now in the middle of a third wave. And to make it worse, I am learning that maybe this country's policy of giving everyone a shot right away and the second shot four months later (due to shortages of vaccines in Canada) is maybe not a good idea. 

According to French media reports in Quebec senior citizens who only received one shot and are waiting for their second shot are getting sick after two months (link is here but the report is in French). The CDC is seeing the same thing in Chicago (link here).