The Labor Day weekend is less than two weeks away and as predictions are released about the number of people who will be travelling by air that weekend, also come predictions about COVID-19.
The Centers for Disease Control said this week that the U.S. is now going through the largest wave of the COVID virus since Januar.
Nowhere near what it was like back in the middle of the pandemic of course, with numbers of hospitalizations way down from that time. And far fewer serious cases due to vaccination rates and increased immunity.
They say certain regions of the country have been more affected than others. California and other Western states have had the most reported cases followed by Southern states.
The CDC is now estimating that COVID-19 will likely grow in at least 25 states, decline in five states and remain stable in 17 of the states.
As the deputy director of the CDC put it, “ "At this point, COVID-19 can be described as endemic throughout the world."
An endemic is not another pandemic. An endemic means the virus is constantly present in a certain population or region with a slow transmission rate.
In other words, COVID is going to be around. But with new strains there is a new vaccine coming out in a few weeks, this Fall, and that’s something probably everyone will want to know.
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