Researchers are seeing an uptick in cases, as they have every summer since the pandemic began. Here’s why. Covid cases are climbing again this summer.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s forecasting model estimates that infections are growing, or likely growing, in most states.
While the agency is reporting low levels of the virus in wastewater nationally, some states, including Texas, Utah and Nevada, are showing very high concentrations of Covid in their wastewater. Emergency department visits linked to Covid are rising, too.
Researchers have braced for an uptick. Though the virus is largely unpredictable — variants shape-shift and symptoms can change from one infection to the next — Covid cases have gone up every summer since the pandemic began.
Around this time last year, there were higher levels of Covid in wastewater than there are currently; this appears to be, so far, a milder wave.