U.S. is seeing a summer wave of COVID

A summer wave of Covid-19 has arrived in the US | CNN Covid-19 levels have been rising in the United States for weeks as new variants drive what’s become an annual summer surge. Deidre McPhillips CNN

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Covid-19 surveillance has been scaled back significantly since the US public health emergency ended more than a year ago — individual cases are no longer counted, and severe outcomes are based on representative samples of the population — but the data that is available is showing a consistent upward trend.

Infections are probably growing in at least 38 states, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wastewater surveillance suggests that viral activity is still relatively low, but hospitalizations and deaths are also ticking up.

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