Comment by paganel

Vaccine is the only thing that can (and does) make this pandemic manageable. I write this comment from Bucharest, where vaccine hesitancy (among other factors) have made it so that only about 30% of the adult population is vaccinated. We have ambulance queues in front of most of the Covid hospitals, patients are "deposited" (for lack of a better word) on hospital hallways, the luckier ones on make-shift beds, the more recent ones on chairs, hanging on to an oxygen tube between their legs. Almost all the other European countries have higher vaccination rates than us, they do not have our current problems.