-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email If a lot of people suddenly seem sick with COVID to you, you’re not alone. Once more, the disease is on many people’s minds as infections, emergency room visits, hospitalizations and even deaths are all trending up, according to the latest data from U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s not that the COVID pandemic ever fully ended , but our baselines have shifted. A high number of infections, injuries and death have plagued us mercilessly since 2020, but in spite of some relative lulls, the risks of COVID haven’t completely disappeared.
Following another winter surge in 2023-2024, most COVID metrics fell during the spring. Now the trend is seemingly reversing, driven by new variants and waning immunity from both vaccines and infections. So far, it’s too early to say whether the upward trend constitutes a new wave or not.
But given that the last four summers have resulted in a steep rise in cases, it’s reasonable to expect history to repeat itself this year, especially as temperatures drop in autumn. Related Can nasal Neosporin fight COVID? Surprising new research suggests it works And it won’t surprise many people that our strategies for fighting COVID haven’t changed much: masking in crowds, avoiding others when having symptoms, testing after exposure to those infected (especially if feeling symptomatic) and keeping up with vaccinations are all effective at reducing the spread of this persistent di.
