International COVID-19 Megathread

[LabourJersey]

Interpret this as you will.
https://fortune.com/2021/06/25/covid-delta-variant-in-israel-vaccinated-adults/

"Some" is doing A LOT of work there.

It reminds me of news articles a couple months ago of "1000 AMERICANS WHO ARE FULLY VACCINATED ARE IN THE HOSPITAL OR DEAD FROM COVID"

1000 out of...65 million Americans fully vaccinated (at that time, this was maybe 2 months ago).

Articles like this really do prove that one of the most concerning biases in this day and age in media is a bias towards pessimism/hyping up the bad part of news

[LabourJersey]

We've officially crossed 3 billion vaccine doses administered worldwide, per the NYT tracker. About 1.85 billion of those are in China, the US, and India.

Taking a step back, this is a truly remarkable accomplishment.

[LabourJersey]

Looks like they will get herd immunity quicker than most - but what a price

It's pretty sad, India essentially became a biological experiment in herd immunity over the winter, and the cost was very high