A new surge of Covid-19 cases is expected to start hitting the US around Thanksgiving just as the holiday season begins, public health experts warn. But with more and more Americans vaccinated, it’s not likely to do as much damage as last year, they say.
,” he said Tuesday at an economic summit, echoing the familiar but ominous warning made famous on the television show “Game of Thrones.” “Covid is not taking the winter off.”Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation“We see increasing evidence in the Northern Hemisphere that the expected winter surge has started to unfold,” DirectorThis is due in part to colder weather driving people inside and the immunity from vaccinations starting to decrease.
“The third factor that’s fueling these winter increases is the fact that people are much less cautious than last winter, as mask use is much lower,” Murray said. Gypsyamber D’Souza, professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said a Covid surge is inevitable this time of year.
“We do expect to see a surge in new cases over the holidays as people get together more and travel more,” she said. “The good news is more than two-thirds of Americans have been vaccinated and that means any increase in new cases will lead to less burden of hospitalization and deaths than it did last year.”“It’s completely appropriate for small groups of vaccinated people to get together,” she said. “We know what works. We have the tools.
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