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-19 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.
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