After weathering what they thought was the worst of the COVID-19 crisis, European countries are seeing new spikes in infections as restrictions ease.
No hymns, no Communion: Germany’s reopened churches offer a road map, but a new outbreak shows the risks
A leader in dealing with the coronavirus, Germany has reopened its houses of worship — but a new coronavirus outbreak shows that risks remain. Romania is averaging about 1,000 new infections a day and recently overtook Poland to become the country with the highest number of confirmed cases in Central and Eastern Europe.Some academics are arguing that the term “second wave” is more applicable to seasonal infectious diseases than COVID-19.
The notion, which has no scientific definition, derives from past influenza outbreaks — notably in 1918 and 2009 — when the disease almost disappeared in the summer and returned in autumn and winter, killing a greater number of people. Researchers have been surprised by how little COVID-19 is responding to seasonal variations in temperature and behavior. “I wasn’t expecting it to increase in summer,” said Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia. A study from Japan found that the chances of getting the disease indoors were 19 times greater than outdoors, he noted.contributed to second waves by increasing virulence and transmissibility.
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