Prognosis

Covid Keeps Spreading Death Where Vaccines Haven’t Reached

  • Just over half a billion vaccine doses have been given
  • Major countries including Brazil and India still face hurdles

Mourners watch as workers wearing protective equipment bury the casket of a Covid-19 victim at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on March 24.

Photographer: Victor Moriyama/Bloomberg
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If you’re living in Israel, the U.S. or the U.K., where vaccination programs are rolling out with remarkable speed, glimpses of a post-pandemic future are starting to appear: Schools have mostly reopened, family gatherings are being planned and summer vacations may be just over the horizon.