{"id":6690,"date":"2024-05-28T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:01:02","slug":"covid-will-still-be-here-this-summer-will-anyone-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/28\/covid-will-still-be-here-this-summer-will-anyone-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid will still be here this summer. Will anyone care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/05\/26\/covid-flirt-variant-cases-summer\/?utm_campaign=wp_todays_headlines&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_headlines&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3dd6168%2F665459c5aa3f71155871ab52%2F5986762dae7e8a68160ab032%2F6%2F59%2F665459c5aa3f71155871ab52\">Washington Post<\/a> Despite \u201cFLiRT\u201d variants, this may be the first covid wave with little federal pressure to limit transmission or data to even declare a surge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By now, it\u2019s as familiar as sunscreen hitting the shelves: Americans are headed into another summer with new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;variants and a likely uptick in cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is shaping up to be the first covid wave with barely anyfederal pressure to limit transmission and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/01\/12\/covid-surge-january-2024\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">little data<\/a>&nbsp;to even declare a surge. People are no longer advised to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/03\/01\/new-cdc-covid-isolation-guidelines\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">isolate for five days<\/a>&nbsp;after testing positive.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/08\/07\/covid-cases-rising-free-testing-limited\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Free tests<\/a>&nbsp;are hard to come by. Soon, uninsured people will no longer be able toget coronavirus vaccines free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf a wave materializes this summer, we\u2019re less poised to navigate the rough waters,\u201d said Ziyad Al-Aly, an epidemiologist and long-covid researcher at the Veterans Affairs health-care system in St. Louis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we\u2019re left with a virus that continues to hum in the background as an ever-present pathogen and sporadic killer. The public health establishment no longer treats covid as a top priority.Only a smattering of passengers still wear masks on trains and planes. Weddings, vacations and conferences carry on as normal. Many who do get sick won\u2019t ever know it\u2019s covid. Or care.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Despite \u201cFLiRT\u201d variants, this may be the first covid wave with little federal pressure to limit transmission or data to even declare a surge. By now, it\u2019s as familiar as sunscreen hitting the shelves: Americans are headed into another summer with new&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;variants and a likely uptick in cases. 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