How Europe Kept Coronavirus Cases Low Even After Reopening
7/21/20
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from The Wall Street Journal,
7/20/20:
Countries that had thousands of cases a day now have hundreds after chastened Europeans comply with mask-wearing, social-distancing rules.
Crucially, experts say, European countries that slowed the incidence of Covid-19 down to a trickle have all continued to ban so-called superspreading events—mass gatherings such as soccer matches and concerts that are believed to have acted as incubators for the pandemic.
Even in Sweden, which never instituted a lockdown and has suffered a high mortality rate, the number of new cases has plateaued as people observe distancing rules amid a ban of large-scale events.
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