France recorded more than 10,000 cases on a single day last week. In Germany, too, young people are overrepresented among the rising cases of infections. At the beginning of September, only 5 percent of confirmed cases had to go to the hospital for treatment, according to data from the country’s health authority. During the height of the pandemic in April, as many as 22 percent of those infected ended up in hospital care. “We’ve have reached a phase where the number of infections alone is no longer as meaningful,” Mr. Streeck said.

Source: New York Times September 15, 2020 15:35 UTC