A summer wave of COVID-19 is rising.
“There’s clearly a bump,” says William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The medical center has seen a steady increase of hospital admissions for COVID-19 over the past three weeks, Schaffner says. “That was entirely expected, I’m afraid.”
Each year, peaks of COVID-19 appear in the summer and again in the winter. Unlike influenza, which nearly disappears in the summer, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, hasn’t settled into a seasonal pattern (SN: 1/29/24). It spreads whenever and wherever people gather indoors.
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