{"id":3387,"date":"2023-04-25T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2023-04-25T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T22:00:16","slug":"whats-going-on-with-covid-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/04\/25\/whats-going-on-with-covid-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Going On With Covid Right Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NYT<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cases, hospitalizations and deaths are lower than they\u2019ve been in years. We asked experts how to think about personal risk \u2014 and what the future likely holds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deaths from Covid-19 in the United States are the lowest they\u2019ve been since March 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s data tracker<\/a>. Case rates have similarly plummeted, though infections have become harder to track because of the widespread availability of at-home rapid tests<\/a>; many of the monitoring systems that were set up at the beginning of the pandemic have also been wound down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this finally the beginning of the end of the pandemic, or just another spring ebb before a new variant initiates a summer wave? (For the past two years, numbers have fallen between March and June, before rising in July.) The New York Times spoke with epidemiologists and infectious disease experts to gauge how they\u2019re thinking about this particular juncture in the pandemic \u2014 what the risk is right now, what precautions they\u2019re continuing to take, who is still getting severely ill and dying, and what the future may bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n