(Nexstar) – Parts of the US are showing warning signs of a surge in Covid infections
Wastewater testing, which can help detect the spread of Covid in a community, has shown that Significant growth There are outbreaks of the virus in several states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that testing sites in Montana and Florida are reporting “very high” levels of COVID. Levels in wastewater are “high” in Alaska, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland and New Mexico.
The C.D.C. says the number of emergency room visits related to COVID-19 has also increased, rising 12.6% in a week. The biggest increases last week were seen in Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.
However, despite the recent surge, hospitalizations for COVID-19 remain very low across the country. Last week, only 0.6% of all cases coming to the emergency department were diagnosed as COVID.
The CDC also reports a 1% increase in positive tests, but because of the prevalence of at-home COVID testing, positive cases often go unreported.
The increase in cases may be driven by new dominant subtypes, such as to flirt And KP.3While Covid vaccines are still very effective against these variants, it may be some time before you get a booster vaccine, leaving you more vulnerable.
“If everyone is vaccinated in November and December and then everyone gets sick in December and January, then the entire population becomes susceptible at about the same time in the summer,” said Ilan Rubin, a research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Time told,
Travel and social interactions during summer can also increase your activity.
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