The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) today warned of a high COVID-19 burden over the next 2 months, as Slovakia today announced a short lockdown to slow its surge, becoming the second European country to do so.The ECDC's stark risk assessment comes as a number of European countries reported new daily record highs for cases.Vaccine coverage not enough to blunt surgeIn its updated risk assessment, the ECDC said unless countries apply public health measures now, alongside a stronger push to get more people vaccinated, modeling projections suggest the burden from the more transmissible Delta (1617.2) variant will be very high in December and January.Andrea Ammon, MD, the ECDC's director, said in a statement that there