Ignore the data at your peril: Covid is still winning

Europe's surge has reached American shores. Rolling back the reopening is inconvenient, but may be the only way to prevent a new strain and more deaths.

Covid cases are rising again in the U.S. already, just after reopening to vaccinatd visitors from abroad, and contributing to a new winter wave of global infection. The resurgence is being led in the Midwest, Southwest and parts of the Northeast, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The only positive aspect of this development is that cases appear to be…