Medical Xpress July 22, 2024
As yet another batch of variants fuel a COVID surge this summer, one expert offers advice on how to navigate the threat.
“We’ve seen a bit of a seasonal pattern emerge, where we’ve had an uptick in COVID in the summer and then another one in the winter—usually the winter one being more severe,” said Dr. Michael Ben-Aderet, associate medical director of hospital epidemiology at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.
This summer, the western part of the country is seeing the biggest spike in cases. Wastewater data for the region shows the virus that causes COVID-19 jumping from moderate to high levels in late June.
What’s driving the spike? The so-called FLiRT variants of COVID, such as KP.3 and KP.2, are...
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