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Posted on 07/31/2023 6:58:20 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
For the fourth summer in a row, Americans are experiencing a COVID-19 surge, this one marked by a rise in hospital admissions, emergency room visits, test positivity rates and wastewater data.
The good news: It’s unlikely that most cases will be severe or that the surge will be long-lasting, experts say.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting a rise in testing, though lab testing is not at the levels it was before the public health emergency ended in May.
“I do see some early signs that we are heading into another wave. Of course, we don’t know what lies ahead. So, it may yet peter out,” Caitlin Rivers, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told CNN.
“It doesn’t seem to be driven by a new variant, which I find encouraging,” Rivers added.
Gene sequencing company Helix has seen cases rise 30% to 40% since June, CNN reported. The company has been helping the CDC track gene changes of the COVID virus.
Numbers were at low levels before the recent rise, noted Shishi Luo, associate director of bioinformatics at Helix.
“When we look at our data, we have noticed that since late June to the beginning of July and probably through now, there has been a mild uptick in cases and these are based on samples sourced from pharmacy-based testing and also from health system-based testing,” Luo told CNN.
The reason for the rise may be that people are traveling more this summer and also meeting up indoors, where there is air conditioning because of heat waves.
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With Batflu19-23 usaully you use your sense of taste and smell. Then you have a 99.5% chance you will drop over dead.
Well unless you get the shot.. then your odds go up that you will suddenly drop over dead while doing something physical.
It’s a cold, Jim.
lose ..not use.. your sense of taste and smell.
Distant Nephew in his 20’s just got a 102 fever, coughing and overall miserable on Friday - Family Dr. couldn’t see him over the weekend so took him to urgent care - they told him he had “The Summer Flu”- gave him steroids to take.
Summer Flu???? First I’ve heard that one.
I butcher that post.:)
you have a 99.5% chance you will live if you get the Batflu19-23.
Good luck.
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14 days to flatten the curve....
Not gonna work again. Sorry, WEFers.
the bathroom at my office is really stinky, so I actually really appreciated losing my sense of smell after getting covid.
Full me once...oh wait..i was fooled.
Fool me once.
I officially give up. :)
It’s a cold, Jim.
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Naw..... I’m really sick.
Caught me some of dat
COVID. Whatever dat be.
I had the same thought. Then again we are talking about the Commies...err... “democrats”. They do have a propensity for screwing up everything that they touch.
The Panic Pimps are trying again.
ai-EEEEE
We all gonna die!
Again...
Summer colds stink because you want to be out and about, especially when you’re a teenager. Winter colds it’s ok to want to stay in bed. Not missing too much action.
May they fail miserably.
Indeed.
:: I thought they would wait until the election cycle was more underway. ::
Don’t worry, they are setting it up in a timely fashion.
Lesser symptoms now but the expected surge NEXT summer will be a doozy!
“For the fourth summer in a row, Americans are experiencing a COVID-19 surge”
*** Do you really believe this crap? I can only think so because you posted it without comment.***
LOLOLOLOL
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