November update on COVID-19 in South Korea

 

Well, this isn't the trends they were hoping to see.

South Korea loosened covid rules after massive vaccine uptake. Now cases and hospitalizations are surging.

Here's the not-so-good news:

"On Wednesday [November 17], the country reported a record 522 coronavirus patients hospitalized with moderate to serious symptoms requiring intensive care, intubation or oxygen to help with breathing. It tallied 3,187 new infections the same day, the second-highest daily figure since the start of the pandemic."

But still, there's this:

"Though daily deaths are rising, South Korea’s covid fatality rate is low — and has fallen from 2.4 percent in May 2020 to less than 0.8 percent now, according to Our World in Data. This, experts say, is partly due to its high vaccination rate."

So yes, vaccines work, and they're still working, even if they aren't working quite as well as when they were first injected.