{"id":7533,"date":"2024-09-03T16:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7533"},"modified":"2024-09-03T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:22:15","slug":"https-www-who-int-emergencies-disease-outbreak-news-item-2024-don533","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/03\/https-www-who-int-emergencies-disease-outbreak-news-item-2024-don533\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has COVID been so much worse this summer? The health belief model has the\u00a0answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-has-covid-been-so-much-worse-this-summer-the-health-belief-model-has-the-answer-237113\">The Conversation<\/a> If you think COVID-19 was suddenly in the news a lot over the summer, you\u2019re probably right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout August, outlets in both Canada and the United States ran headlines about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/half-us-states-reporting-high-covid-activity-levels\/story?id=112783915\">high COVID levels<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/health\/summer-surge-how-severe-is-covid-in-canada-and-what-should-you-do-1.6993777\">summer surge of cases<\/a>, timing of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/12\/well\/coronavirus-vaccine-booster.html\">booster shots<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/health\/other\/fauci-wants-to-bring-back-masks-as-covid-cases-increase\/ar-AA1oKc7F?ocid=entnewsntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=92dcf329a18a4a04a552594d227d9947&amp;ei=10\">reviving the use of face masks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As numerous&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucelee\/2024\/08\/10\/is-a-covid-19-outbreak-happening-at-the-paris-olympics\/\">athletes tested positive<\/a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/olympic-athletes-allowed-to-compete-while-covid-positive\/\">COVID at the Olympics in Paris<\/a>, news outlets reminded Canadians that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/health\/covid-activity-levels-bc-health-emergency\">COVID is still a threat<\/a>, and that summer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/summer-covid-wave-canada-1.7284696\">cold symptoms might in fact be COVID<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of COVID news stories could go on and on, but what many experts seem to agree on is that this surge is a pretty big deal. In fact, Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/covid-us-largest-summer-wave-cdc-high-transmission-rcna165765\">predicts this wave might be the biggest summer surge since the virus started<\/a>, according to an article in CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conversation If you think COVID-19 was suddenly in the news a lot over the summer, you\u2019re probably right. Throughout August, outlets in both Canada and the United States ran headlines about&nbsp;high COVID levels, the&nbsp;summer surge of cases, timing of&nbsp;booster shots&nbsp;and&nbsp;reviving the use of face masks. As numerous&nbsp;athletes tested positive&nbsp;for&nbsp;COVID at the Olympics in Paris, [&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-7533","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\/7533","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=7533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7535,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions\/7535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}