More than 106 million people within the United States are absolutely vaccinated. Airlines are resuming overseas flights. Come summer time, absolutely vaccinated individuals touring from America will once again be welcome across Europe.

But the truth is extra sobering.

Globally, more new coronavirus cases have been reported in latest weeks than at any level because the onset of the pandemic. The numbers are being pushed by an uncontrolled outbreak in India, but additionally account for troubling traits amongst European locations well-liked with Americans, from France and Germany to Italy and Spain.

“My doomsday scenario is a mixing of vaccinated and unvaccinated populations in a setting where there is high viral load and high viral transmission,” mentioned Dr. Sarah Fortune, the chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases on the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Even if worldwide vacationers might travel safely, securely and with out risking the well-being of their hosts, guests could face one more obstacle: The locations could lack lots of their traditional attracts. In Paris, bars and eating places have been closed because the finish of October, as are museums.