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COVID-19’s summer surge shows no signs of slowing down
The Hill ^ | 08/17/2024 | NATHANIEL WEIXEL

Posted on 08/17/2024 5:59:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A surge in COVID-19 infections has swept the country this summer, upending travel plans and bringing fevers, coughs and general malaise. It shows no immediate sign of slowing.

While most of the country and the federal government has put the pandemic in the rearview mirror, the virus is mutating and new variants emerging.

Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer tracks individual infection numbers, experts think it could be the biggest summer wave yet.

So far, the variants haven’t been proven to cause a more serious illness, and vaccines remain effective, but there’s no certainty about how the virus may yet change and what happens next.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; chinavirus; chinavirusvaccine; covid; electionvariant; fearfearfear; mooshuflu; signs; summer; surge; vaccinemandate; wuhanvirus
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I better mail my ballot in and mask up at Walmart. 🙄
1 posted on 08/17/2024 5:59:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Take your surge and shove it. I am so tired of fake hysteria.


2 posted on 08/17/2024 6:01:07 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not you, the article. :)


3 posted on 08/17/2024 6:01:33 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Lizavetta

I know lmao


4 posted on 08/17/2024 6:03:14 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

Some day.


5 posted on 08/17/2024 6:03:35 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Hill may as well be Media Matters.


6 posted on 08/17/2024 6:05:17 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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So, is CDC and the rest of the fear porn scum “suggesting” that EVERY SUMMER prior to 2019 people NEVER had to deal with “fevers, coughs and general malaise”?

We were all so clueless because summers were carefree and disease free EVERY YEAR prior to 2019. How did humanity survive??


7 posted on 08/17/2024 6:06:45 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A summer cold is a different animal...


8 posted on 08/17/2024 6:06:46 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Disambiguator
no longer tracks individual infection numbers

Then how do they know it's surging? Phony made up effort to further gaslight using a 4 year old nothing burger.

9 posted on 08/17/2024 6:06:48 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Between the COVID surge and the new, improved Monkeypox posing risks in Africa, we’ll be masking up in our own bedrooms and voting only by mail for years.


10 posted on 08/17/2024 6:07:18 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: Lizavetta

Not so fake. I’m a hospitalist. I see it. It’s not the horrible actor Delta was, but I don’t recommend it. I had it myself three weeks ago. I felt like crap for a week. BTW, it was COVID #4 for me. I’ve only had the clot shot, and had no ill effects from it.


11 posted on 08/17/2024 6:09:02 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (We are so racist a woman has to pretend to be black in order to win the Presidency.)
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A summer cold is a different animal...

Beat me to it!!

12 posted on 08/17/2024 6:11:00 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Its on a rampage I tell ya!


13 posted on 08/17/2024 6:15:02 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: JusPasenThru

My neighbor is having his fourth go-round with it, this time complete with an unshakable fever.


14 posted on 08/17/2024 6:17:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I remember when sicknesses always hit in the Winter months. Why now suddenly summer months? I had a summer cold once but never summer flu. Flu and pneumonia nailed me in winter, 1977! BAD!


15 posted on 08/17/2024 6:18:46 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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COVID-19’s summer surge shows no signs of slowing down

...and?

At this point, is COVID-19 any more serious than the common cold? It's a coronavirus, just like all cold strains, and as time passes and it mutates, it gets weaker.
16 posted on 08/17/2024 6:19:36 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Absolutely nobody I know is ill here in Montana, even with the smoke from wildfires that the Democrats make sure happen to save some owls or something.


17 posted on 08/17/2024 6:20:48 PM PDT by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Hill.
This is the first of the week’s Pandemic Fear Porn.
Expect a weekly dose or two of Climate Fear Porn.
And at least two daily doses of Trump Fear Porn.
You should look forward to at least one demonstration that they know less about economics than Marx (their hero) did.
All brought to you by mere journalists - who’d fail any 101 level course in any subject back in the real universities of yesterday.


18 posted on 08/17/2024 6:24:37 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t forget toilet paper when you’re there next.


19 posted on 08/17/2024 6:25:43 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: AnAmericanMother

So many things I don’t remember, yet my head’s still retaining stupid ads from fifty years ago, or whenever it was.


20 posted on 08/17/2024 6:28:27 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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