Uptick In US COVID-19 Cases Possible This Summer, Though Few Public Health Resources Will Go To Prevention

The Washington Post (5/26, A1, Nirappil, Malhi) reported that it “is as familiar as sunscreen hitting the shelves: Americans are headed into another summer with new coronavirus variants and a likely uptick in cases.” This “is shaping up to be the first covid wave with barely any federal pressure to limit transmission and little data to even declare a surge.” The public health establishment “no longer treats covid as a top priority.” While “the CDC and health authorities continue to promote the coronavirus vaccine, last updated in fall 2023 for a subvariant no longer in circulation, as the best form of protection against the disease,” just “23 percent of adults have received a dose of the latest vaccine, the CDC estimates.”