Parts of Europe are experiencing new COVID-19 outbreaks, illustrating that the continent has struggled to involve the virus as much or more than the United States.
The number of cases in the EU jumped by almost 60% between the week ended 28 June and the week ended On 30 August, according to knowledge collected through the World Health Organisation.
Spain and France, in particular, have experienced primary outbreaks in weeks.
Spain recorded 125 cases consisting of 100,000 inhabitants last week, more than 90 consistent with 100,000 in the United States, according to the knowledge added through the New York Times.
“It’s almost like a mountainous system, and you climb a hill, and then you have this area flat, and you get up and fall …This is from a big wave that has highs,” said Dr. Wafaa El Sadr, director of the Global Health Initiative at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
France is close to its worst epidemic to date, with more than 7,000 new cases on Wednesday.There were already about 60 cases consisting of 100,000 inhabitants.
Italy, Germany and other countries have also noticed an increase in cases.Overall, the relationship between the total number of cases reported in the UNITED States and the EU increased from 20 to 1 less than two months ago to approximately 3 to 1.
The accumulation of cases in countries that have implemented strict measures for the transmission of the virus at the beginning of the year shows the dangers that apply everywhere.
“No country can claim that the pandemic is over,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus this week: “The truth is that this coronavirus spreads easily, can be fatal for others of all ages, and at most others remain sensitive.”
Of course, reported cases are a measure of the severity of an epidemic and the most sensitive indicator of detection and reporting problems.
Deaths, the clearest indication, have not yet accumulated, particularly in Spain and France, however, are expected to increase, as patients with COVID-19 take weeks or months to become sick, die and register as dying of the disease.
“[Mortality is] the last thing that increases, but then it is very difficult to decrease it because in hospitals teams of patients begin to accumulate in a very serious condition and do not progress well,” said Francisco Javier FaloArray, General Manager of Public Aptitude in Aragon, Spain.
Even in this case, deaths may not be recorded well or possibly completely lost.For this reason, the clearest indication of the history of the pandemic is the higher number of deaths, i.e. the excess of the total number of deaths in a year.region compared to an old average.
According to this standard, Europe has done more than the United States since the beginning of the pandemic.
For example, even before the last case outbreak, Spain had experienced an excess mortality rate of 95 consistent with 100,000 since the onset of the pandemic.The corresponding figure for the United States is 66.
In fact, the United States is more or less in the middle of the group of European countries.The UNITED Kingdom, Italy and Belgium have higher mortality rates in excess, while the Netherlands, Portugal and France have rates of decline.
It is worth noting, however, that Germany, a country of more than 80 million inhabitants, has kept its excess mortality rate below 11 consisting of 100,000 inhabitants.Several small countries, namely in Scandinavia, have prevented massive loss of life..
Current outbreaks in Spain and are likely to be less fatal than the initial waves of the pandemic in the spring, just as the summer outbreak in Sun Belt states has proven to be less fatal.COVID-19 deaths represent a giant proportion of new cases in Spain, resulting in a mortality rate of around 6.6%, or just over the mortality rate at the peak of the pandemic.