Yet another summer COVID 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,” Dr. Brendan Jackson, the CDC’s COVID-19 Incident Manager, tells NPR.
The amount of virus being detected in wastewater, the percentage of people testing positive for the virus, and the number of people seeking care for COVID at emergency rooms all started increasing in early July, Jackson says.
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