COVID-19

Wastewater surveillance and testing data suggest that the U.S. might be at the very beginning of a summer surge in Covid-19 cases, driven by a perpetual lack of collective safety measures and the newer variant KP.2. Without safety measures or long-lasting vaccines, the country faces a wave of reinfections every few months.

Covid-19 spread in the U.S. is still at a lull, following the trend we’ve observed since mid-March. In this era of the pandemic, though, low points in transmission still mean thousands of new infections every day. And the CDC just stopped tracking Covid-19 hospitalizations, removing one of our more reliable data sources as a new…

The U.S.’s lull between Covid-19 surges continues, with hospitalizations for the disease reaching their lowest value in over a year — though we’re about to lose that data source. As I’ve pointed out multiple times in recent weeks, there is still a lot of SARS-CoV-2 transmission going on even when CDC maps are colored all…

Following the trends of the last few weeks, national Covid-19 metrics continue to decrease across the board. Current lulls in disease spread still indicate thousands of people are getting infected daily, though, when compared to the true low points reported in earlier years when mass Covid-19 precautions were still common.

Covid-19 metrics continue to slowly trend down as the end of this past winter’s surge recedes into a lower-risk spring, with reports from wastewater suggesting that the decline in transmission is leveling off. However, these low points come with a lot more virus spread than they used to in the early years of the pandemic,…

Downward Covid-19 trends continue across the major national data sources, as the U.S. keeps inching toward a lower-risk spring and summer. Flu and other respiratory viruses are trending down, too, though there are still a lot of pathogens going around.