. Vaccine-hesitant populations, particularly in the east, cooler temperatures, reopened schools, waning vaccine effectiveness and increased travel have helped create a perfect storm for this wave, which is Europe’s fourth, fifth or sixth, depending on how you count. “It’s a rocky road ahead for all of us,” Dr. Richard Pebody, who leads the high-threat pathogen team at WHO/Europe, told Yahoo News. “We can’t afford to let our guard down.”continues in Spain.
Those precautions are paying off. “Spain is doing particularly well compared to other European countries,” Lopez-Acuña told Yahoo News, crediting health agencies, stringent class-size reductions and mask wearing in schools, and a science-accepting public, as well as long-enduring COVID restrictions. The spikes in cases and deaths across Europe are a preview of coming holiday attractions in the United States, Dr. Peter Hotez, immunologist and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told Yahoo News.
Hotez believes that until Spain’s population receives that third shot, it might squander its current coveted status as one of the few places in Europe not being forced to reimpose curfews and lockdowns. Author of “Modern Epidemics,” cellular biologist Dr. Salvador Macip, a native Spaniard teaching at the University of Leicester in England, told Yahoo News he is pessimistic that Spain can hold onto its current status for long.
But even if Macip raises an eyebrow at Spain’s “open doors” policy, he and others in public health are most chagrined by the actions of U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government, which, having gotten half of its population vaccinated by midsummer, proclaimed July 19 as Freedom Day and dropped all masking requirements for England, though they remain in effect in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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