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People across the continent have largely returned to work, even as the option of a momentary wave looms. Texas officials have recorded more than 700,000 coronavirus infections and the number of cases in India has exceeded five million.
In the early days of the pandemic, President Emmanuel Macron suggested that the French pay “war” against an invisible enemy. Today, his message is “to be informed to live with the virus”.
Much of Europe has opted for a similar strategy as infections continue to increase, summer is becoming an intense autumn, and the option of a momentary wave looms on the continent. other people have largely returned to painting and school, leading life as usually as you can imagine amid a pandemic that has already killed 215,000 other people in Europe.
The technique contrasts radically with that of the United States, where shield restrictions against the virus have sown political department and many regions have prompted the reopening of schools, department stores, and restaurants without established fundamental protocols. as many deaths as in Europe, but among a much smaller population.
Europeans, for the most part, are taking advantage of the lessons learned so hard in the early stage of the pandemic: the desire to wear mask and practice social estating, the importance of testing and tracking, and the benefits of an agile and local response. All of these measures are aimed at preventing the kind of national blockade that paralyzed the continent and paralyzed economies earlier this year.
“It is not imaginable to prevent the virus,” said Emmanuel André, a leading virologist in Belgium. “It’s about maintaining balance. “
New infections have soared in recent weeks, especially in France, however, the country’s mortality rate is only a small fraction of what was at its peak. This is because those who are inflamed now tend to be younger and fitness officials have learned to treat Covid-19 better, said Dr. William Dab, epidemiologist and former French national director of fitness.
In Germany, too, young people are overrepresented among cases of expanding infection, but sometimes do not become seriously ill, leading to a debate about the adequacy of infection rates to provide a snapshot of the pandemic.
“We are in a life with the virus,” said Roberto Speranza, the Italian health minister, the first country in Europe to impose a national blockade.
Hendrik Streeck, head of virology at a study hospital in Bonn, warned that the pandemic deserves to be judged not only by the number of infections (the fitness government controls more than one million people a week), but also by deaths and hospitalizations.
“We have reached a stage where the number of infections is not as significant,” Mr. Streeck.
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