Forbes August 21, 2024
COVID-19 cases are currently surging in the United States, with at least 25 states seeing significant upticks in infections. Levels of the virus in wastewater are either “very high” or “high” in 46 states currently, according to CDC data. If the numbers continue, the country may be facing one of the biggest COVID infection waves since 2020. Although hospitalizations and deaths aren’t currently at the same levels as during previous surges in 2020 and 2021, those numbers are also increasing. (Though death rates have declined thanks to vaccines and better treatments, COVID remained one of the top ten causes of death in the United States last year).
But as two new studies published in the past week show, severe COVID...