Yet another summer COVID-19 wave may have started in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “After roughly six, seven months of steady declines, things are starting to tick back up again,” said Dr. Brendan Jackson.
Hospitalizations for COVID-19 are ticking up. But even if illnesses keep rising, it appears unlikely that they will hit previous summer peaks.
“We’ve seen the early indicators go up for the past several weeks, and just this week for the first time in a long time we’ve seen hospitalizations tick up as well,” Jackson says. “This could be the start of a late summer wave.”to 7,109 for the week ending July 15, from 6,444 the previous week, according to the latest CDC data.
“If you sort of imagine the decline in cases looking like a ski slope — going down, down, down for the last six months — we’re just starting to see a little bit of an almost like a little ski jump at the bottom,” Jackson says. So the CDC has no plans to change recommendations for what most people should do, like encourage widescale masking again.
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