Vaccines cut fatality rates but case numbers continue to go up, possibly as immunity wanes from doses administered in spring
“With almost 50,000 deaths a week, the pandemic is far from over — and that’s just the reported deaths,” World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the World Health Summit in Berlin on Oct. 24.
The world has already been through three major COVID infection waves, and fatality rates have gradually fallen with each successive one. Each country, and sometimes individual regions within countries, face their own unique situations. Cases are surging anew even in such highly vaccinated places as the U.K. and Belgium.
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