A summer COVID surge is underway in the U.S., warns the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — so should you be concerned? As of June 25, 2024, the CDC estimated that COVID-19 infections are 'growing or likely growing' in 44 states and territories, according to a news alert on its website. Despite the rise in cases, hospitalizations and deaths remain low, the data shows.
Given that the pandemic was declared officially over as of May 5, 2023, public health officials don’t collect the same amount of COVID data as they once did. 'But the data that we do have from the CDC, including from monitoring wastewater, indicates that COVID-19 infections are rising in many places in the U.S.,' Dr. Jay Varma, chief medical officer at SIGA Technologies, a pharmaceutical company in New York City, told Fox News Digital. Dr.
It’s not quite as easy, however, to explain the peak during warmer weather. 'It may be because the virus evolves at a frequency that aligns with the spring/summer — or there could be other environmental factors that we do not understand well,' Varma said. Siegel, however, does not believe that COVID is seasonal. 'It is a respiratory virus, and it spreads when people huddle close together,' he told Fox News Digital.
'Having said that, it has not shown itself to be seasonal, meaning that it can spread in warm weather easily as well.' COVID’s subvariants are 'immunoevasive,' according to Siegel, which means people can get them even if they had prior immunity. Ways to curb the spread To reduce the chances of catching COVID this summer, Siegel said the same advice applies year-round.
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