{"id":7421,"date":"2024-08-20T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2024-08-20T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:36:27","slug":"covid-19-on-the-upswing-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/20\/covid-19-on-the-upswing-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 on the Upswing in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/covid19\/111569?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2024-08-19&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202024-08-19&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">MedPageToday<\/a> COVID-19 hasn&#8217;t gone away, and data from the CDC suggest it&#8217;s on the upswing around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen these summer increases every summer that COVID-19 has been with us,&#8221; said Amesh Adalja, MD, a Johns Hopkins University infectious disease physician. &#8220;What&#8217;s different about these cases this summer versus prior summers is that they don&#8217;t translate into hospitals in crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adalja said factors in the seasonal increase could be increased travel, people staying indoors to avoid summer heat, and the virus&#8217; continued evolution &#8212; which could help it get around people&#8217;s immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/covid19\/111569?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2024-08-19&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202024-08-19&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">Continue reading<\/a> <\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"pscgFxszlS  \"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday COVID-19 hasn&#8217;t gone away, and data from the CDC suggest it&#8217;s on the upswing around the country. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen these summer increases every summer that COVID-19 has been with us,&#8221; said Amesh Adalja, MD, a Johns Hopkins University infectious disease physician. &#8220;What&#8217;s different about these cases this summer versus prior summers is that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7422,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions\/7422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}