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*MERKEL SAYS CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IN GERMANY IS `DRAMATIC'
It is the highest ever daily count (blue bars) and 7-day average (orange), and still going vertical.
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Austria and the Netherlands are the same as Germany.
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Western Europe is still surging and the 7-day average (orange) is the highest since January.
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The UK, which never really declined from its all-time peak in July, is turning higher again.
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And the US has bottomed and is accelerating (green line, bottom panel).
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COVID trends in Western Europe (blue) and the US (orange).
Sometimes the U.S. leads (2020), sometimes Europe leads (first half of 2021).
But what seems to be constant is when cases surge in one area, as is the case in Western Europe now, the other area eventually follows.
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And the world is trending higher ... again
All the European countries that have COVID raging higher have significantly higher vaccination rates than the US (black).
And so does Japan and COVID has almost disappeared.🤔
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