{"id":9857,"date":"2025-07-09T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9857"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:00:11","slug":"heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-covid-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/09\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-covid-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what you need to know about covid this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/07\/04\/covid-coronavirus-summer-surge\/\">Washington Post<\/a> Experts say a surge may happen in the coming months and urge people to get vaccinated. Coronavirus cases may surge in the coming weeks, as they have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/07\/18\/biden-covid-summer-wave-symptoms-flirt-variant\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"every summer, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">every summer<\/a>&nbsp;since the pandemic began five years ago, experts said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/05\/30\/covid-vaccines-children-pregnant-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Getting vaccinated, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Getting vaccinated<\/a>, masking,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/03\/29\/white-house-covid-strategy-indoor-air-quality\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"improving air quality, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">improving air quality<\/a>\u00a0and staying away from those who may be contagious continue to be some of the best ways to protect yourself from the coronavirus, they said. Currently, \u201cCOVID-19 wastewater activity, emergency department visits and laboratory percent positivity\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/data\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"are at very low levels, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are at very low levels<\/a>,\u201d according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Experts say a surge may happen in the coming months and urge people to get vaccinated. Coronavirus cases may surge in the coming weeks, as they have&nbsp;every summer&nbsp;since the pandemic began five years ago, experts said. Getting vaccinated, masking,\u00a0improving air quality\u00a0and staying away from those who may be contagious continue to be some [&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-9857","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\/9857","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=9857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9858,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions\/9858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}