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Now that we're in November the WSJ is reporting exactly that, "
“as the pandemic’s second wave spreads across Italy and Europe, Bergamo is being spared. The city and its surrounding province have lower infection rates than many other parts of Italy. Bergamo’s main hospital has beds to spare and is taking in patients from harder-hit cities such as Milan............What we are seeing is that the spring’s worst-hit areas are among the least affected now,” said Claudio Cancelli, the mayor of Nembro............Bergamo is recording around 21 new virus cases a day for every 100,000 residents, compared with 47 across Italy on average, and 103 in Milan, according to official data.....“We are very far from achieving herd immunity, but areas that experienced a high frequency of infections, there are probably enough antibodies to limit the circulation of the virus,” said Giuseppe Remuzzi, a Bergamo-based infectious-disease expert who oversaw the antibody survey and co-wrote a recent paper in The Lancet based on its findings.
" https://www.wsj.com/articles/bergamo...hp_featst_pos3
Sweden is not having the same experience:
20%(!) of covid tests on Stockholm residents are positive (up from ~1% in August) «the number of inpatients in hospitals ICU is now increasing dramatically» «The second wave is here now, says Johan Styrud, chairman of the Stockholm Medical Association»
https://www.dn.se/sthlm/var-femte-st...-covidsmittad/