Doctors across the US have issued warnings as a summer surge in Covid cases hits the country . Since the public health emergency ended over a year ago, Covid surveillance has been scaled back significantly, but now data is showing a consistent upward trend during summer months. In at least 38 states, Covid infections are growing, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), while hospitalizations and deaths are also ticking up.
Cannabis users with Covid are more likely to be hospitalized, new study shows Trump inspired by Fox News to use hydroxychloroquine for Covid, Dr Fauci says Covid levels are especially high on the West Coast and in the South, where viral levels are back to where they were in February, the CDC said. Dr. Robert Hopkins, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, said to CNN : “The virus tends to replicate well and to stay alive in an environment with warm and moist conditions.
” Hopkins added: “That fits with what we’re seeing. The South and the West are steamy and hot right now.” While summer surges are a common seasonal pattern, experts have warned that Covid can still be very unpredictable.
Hopkins said: “I think it’s still a bit early to say what the pattern is. A large portion of the population has had some exposure to the virus, the peaks have been a little bit less high, and we have tended to see a summer bump as well as a winter increase. “But whether that pattern is going to.