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Holiday Travel Concerning Officials Regarding New Surge in Covid Cases
With Christmas in the rearview mirror, public health experts are bracing for yet another surge in Covid-19 cases similar to those seen after other US holidays in recent months.
“We’ve just seen these amplification events, and that’s what’s happened at the end of this year in the US,” said Erin Bromage, an associate professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
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“We had Thanksgiving, we had Labor Day, we had Halloween, and each one of these events brought lots of people together and just gave the virus more fuel to move through the population,” Bromage said. “Christmas is going to do a similar thing.”
With Christmas in the rear view mirror, public health experts are bracing for yet another surge in COVID-19 cases, similar to those seen after other US holidays in recent months.
With Christmas in the rear view mirror, public health experts are bracing for yet another surge in Covid-19 cases, similar to those seen after other US holidays in recent months.
COVID vaccines appear safe and effective, but key questions remain
The recent rollout of two newly authorized COVID-19 vaccines is a bright ray of hope at the pandemic s darkest hour.
We now have a path that can lead us to happier times even as we watch and suffer from the horrible onslaught of new infections, hospitalizations and deaths that mark the end of this regrettable year.
Health care workers and nursing home residents have already begun to get shots in the first phase of the rollout. Vaccinations should start to be available to the general public sometime in the first few months of next year.