European countries face more lockdowns and restrictions as COVID-19 surges again

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European countries face more lockdowns and restrictions as COVID-19 surges again

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Some European countries are feeling the weight of COVID-19’s hand through record-breaking case counts and new restrictions. Gerald Gartlehner, a professor in evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology, and Kai Kupferschmidt, a contributing correspondent for Science magazine, give us the rundown in Austria and Germany. We also ask University of Toronto epidemiologist David Fisman if Canadians should be worried about rising numbers in some of our provinces.