Prognosis
Some Vaccines Help Nations Exit the Pandemic Faster Than Others
- All vaccines still reduce serious illness and deaths
- mRNA shots appear more effective in preventing transmission
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With hundreds of millions of people now vaccinated against Covid-19, the coronavirus outbreak should begin to die down in places where a large chunk of the population has been inoculated. But that isn’t happening everywhere.
Instead, two paths are emerging: In countries such as Israel, new Covid cases are declining as vaccinations spread, while in other places like the Seychelles -- which has fully inoculated more of its population than any other nation -- infections continue to increase or even reach new highs.