Or maybe people with glasses are just plain smarter.

*tips glasses*

M'nerd

The social stigma does.

Weekly update. Another record week, over 2 million new cases in the past week.

Worldwide there were 2.04 million cases reported (up from 1.87 million) bringing the total to 30.7 million.
Deaths were lower than last week thanks to a drop in South America, 36.8K (down from 40.8K) to a total of 956K, getting close to a million.

The USA saw a slight uptick last week, Europe is still outpacing the USA.

The continents

Asia towering ahead with 868.1K new cases last week (up from 832.0K) and 12,784 new deaths (up from 11,842)
South America following with 425.1K new cases last week (up from 387.5K) and 10,220 new deaths (down from 15,588)
North America reported 357.9K new cases last week (up from 318.4K) and 8,904 new deaths (down from 9,288)
Europe reported 340.7K new cases last week (up from 270.6K) and 3,535 new deaths (up from 2,502)
Africa sill declining, 52.1K new cases last week (down from 55.4K) and 1,267 new deaths (down from 1,505)
Oceania dropped off the chart again, 478 new cases last week (down from 749) and 42 new deaths (down from 63)

Corners of the world

India reported 648.1K new cases last week (up from 637.1K) and 8,119 new deaths (down from 8,937)
USA reported 289.7K new cases last week (up from 247.2K) and 5,750 new deaths (up from 5,310)
Brazil reported 213.5K new cases last week (up from 192.2K) and 5,383 new deaths (up from 4,890)

Iran is heading up slightly, Canada is rising more sharply.
South Africa, and Japan are staying around the same level.
South Korea and Australia are doing well, declining.

Europe in detail

Nothing good to see here. The Netherlands looks worrying, going up very fast and already exceeded their previous peak.
There doesn't seem to be anything stopping France either.

Wanted to share this information:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JcoFa5ieyA

In early August, my state was spiking at more than 700 cases a day. Today's tally: 14. (And 24 for the whole country)

Looks like our second wave is pretty much over.

More than 60,000 volunteer for final trial of pioneering 'Sputnik V' Covid-19 vaccine, 100s get jab and 'feel well' – Moscow mayor

Tens of thousands of people have volunteered to take part in trials of Russia's pioneering Covid-19 vaccine, known as 'Sputnik V,' the mayor of Moscow has revealed.

Hundreds have already been immunized with the formula. Large-scale final trials of the vaccine, the first in the world to be officially registered, are underway in the Russian capital, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin told the Rossiya-1 TV channel on Sunday.

"More than 60,000 people have volunteered [and] several thousand people have undergone relevant medical checks" prior to taking part in the trials, said Sobyanin. More than 700 have received the Sputnik V shot and "all of them are feeling well," he added. 

Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko had previously reported that volunteers had shown no unexpected adverse effects so far. "Approximately 14 percent have minor complaints of weakness, muscle pain for 24 hours, and an occasional increase in body temperature," he told the media last week.

The symptoms are "described in the instructions and are predictable," the minister said, explaining that they "level off" by the next day. The vaccine was developed by Moscow's renowned Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology earlier this year. President Vladimir Putin announced on August 11 that it had been officially registered. Health officials have signaled that Sputnik V will be available for a mass nationwide vaccination campaign by early next year.

Will be interesting how effective this vaccination will turn out. But however the result, my country hasn't ordered vaccination doses from that source, as far as I know we have ordered from AstroZeneca and also invest in CureVac. We'll see what will be the best bet.

I can only imagine that people who received that vaccine and get infected with the virus afterwards will get a special refresher shot.