Coronavirus vaccination rates are on the rise, as are the cases of HIV infection

But the epidemic is not over yet, in many countries, cases are rising again. By some measures, it’s more bad than ever. Globally, numbers of new cases are nearing a peak reached in January. In Europe, the United States and Latin America, there is talk of another wave, perhaps a misnomer – how can a new wave start if the previous one did not completely break out? In the United States, despite the most successful vaccine release of any nation, the issues are rising again. During a virtual health briefing at the White House on Monday, Rochelle Wallinski, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, admitted she was “afraid” of the direction things were going. Walinsky said she had to talk about “the recurring feeling that I have of impending death.” Many European countries are struggling with their own increases, in part due to the slow introduction of vaccines and the spread of variants. French President Emmanuel Macron said: “We will lose control if we do not act now,” as he announced nationwide restrictions Wednesday, and in India, where cases have fallen sharply for months, there is a new escalation that puts the virus in the face of the vaccine. “You can see the tidal wave is coming,” Bahramar Mukherjee, a biostatistician at the University of Michigan who is modeling the outbreak in India told the Washington Post last week. Then there is Latin America, where many countries are lagging behind in vaccination. In Brazil, where President Jair Bolsonaro has been dismissive of the virus since the early days of the pandemic, the wave of spiraling out of control coincided with a political crisis, and top cabinet officials and military commanders made a messy exit from government this week, Ricardo Ricupero, a veteran Brazilian diplomat, told The Guardian: “Now, Brazil is in the dark,” the virus has a habit of sneaking into us. There was a lot of good news to distract us. Almost all information about the efficacy of vaccines has been positive. In Britain, which was once one of the countries hardest hit by the virus, the strikes seem to be doing the job: On Sunday, there were no recorded Covid-19 deaths in London for the first time in six months, but in some ways, this is news. The good is part of the problem. After a year of restrictions, frustration, and misery, the light at the end of the tunnel can be overwhelming and the temptation to return to normal is irresistible. In countries where vaccines are going well, the doses have not ended the disease on their own, and in Chile, one of the stars of rare vaccines in Latin America, more than 6 million of the country’s 18 million people have been vaccinated. But at the same time, there has been an increase in infections threatening to overwhelm the health care system, with 7,626 cases of novel coronavirus infection recorded in one day last week. The most contagious variants were first found in Britain and Brazil in the country, and health care experts say the government is moving to ease restrictions, including creating a permit system for the summer vacation in January and opening gyms, churches and schools weeks later. Contributed to the surge. The nation announced new lockdown measures this weekend. “No one doubts that the vaccination campaign is a success story,” the nation announced new lockdown measures this weekend. “But it conveyed a false sense of safety to the people, who felt that because we were all vaccinated, the epidemic was over.” The epidemic is not over, but if we are lucky we may see the beginning of the end. The overwhelming unknown for March 2020 is over, but the proliferation of variants means a race against time with the introduction of vaccines in most countries – a race that many nations are risking. “We now have an unmatched supply of amazingly effective vaccines. Vaccines are being given in an amazing clip,” Zainab Tufikji wrote to Atlantic magazine this week. If we act quickly, this increase could only be a fleeting picture of the United States. But if we move too slowly, more people will be infected with this terrible new species, which is extremely dangerous for those who have not yet been vaccinated. “Historically, epidemics have often not ended well. Even now, medical historians debate how and when the 1918 flu pandemic ended. “Some argue that it infected enough of the population to form a barrier of natural immunity,” Anna Gross wrote in an article for the Financial Times earlier this month. Others say it has mutated to become less lethal over time. Either way, severe attacks continued around the world until 1922. “In general, diseases tend to fade rather than burn. Smallpox, one of the only epidemics defeated by human efforts, has been wiped out after a grueling global vaccination campaign. It lasted 13 years and sometimes involved coercive and violent efforts, Gross notes.Coronavirus pandemic is over, but the virus remains in our lives.As James Hamblin, physician and writer for The Atlantic, said Covid-19 may already be over, but it has now been replaced by a successor we may describe Hamblin wrote last week: “It is a disease as it will be tested in the months and years to come.” Much discussion has focused on controversial theories about leakage in the laboratory. But in some ways, this may be the most assured scenario. Having spread from animals to humans in nature, perhaps due to rapid urbanization in China, the biggest concern is that a similar, related coronavirus could spread to humans in the same way in the coming years. Adhanom Ghebreyesus this week indicated that more is needed. Action. “This report is a very important beginning, but it is not the end.”