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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd think they read enough to know that covid cases are up + have some reason to want to protect themselves and that reason is not my business.[/quote]

What's the source for your data?[/quote]

DP but it was on CNN’s homepage two days ago.  Easy to find and they name the sources.[/quote]

CDC is reporting it:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/28/1190443473/the-cdc-sees-signs-of-a-late-summer-covid-wave

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davewessner/2023/07/28/cdc-reports-increasing-number-of-covid-19-hospitalizations-should-we-be-worried/amp/

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-07-18/covid-19-metrics-see-first-increase-since-january-cdc

Hospitalizations are ticking up in the past couple of weeks:
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-TRENDS/dgkvlgkrkpb/
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Is this the beginning of a summer surge?

"Before getting too concerned, it’s important to put these numbers in context. At first glance, a 10% increase sounds alarming. But the actual numbers are low. The 7,109 new hospitalizations last week? A year ago, there were over 40,000 new Covid-19 hospitalizations per week. In fact, the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States is at its lowest level since the very early days of the pandemic. The positive test rate needs to be contextualized, too. Yes, the positivity rate has increased from 4.1% to 7.6% over the past six weeks. But a year ago, over 14% of tests were positive. And many more tests were being administered."

"But overall, the numbers remain very low — far lower than in the last three summers.

"If you sort of imagine the decline in cases looking like a ski slope — going down, down, down for the last six months — we're just starting to see a little bit of an almost like a little ski jump at the bottom," Jackson says.

Most of the hospitalizations are among older people. And deaths from COVID-19 are still falling — in fact, deaths have fallen to the lowest they've been since the CDC started tracking them, Jackson says. That could change in the coming weeks if hospitalizations keep increasing, but that's not an inevitability, Jackson says.

So the CDC has no plans to change recommendations for what most people should do, like encourage widescale masking again.

"For most people, these early signs don't need to mean much," he says.

Others agree.

"It's like when meteorologists are watching a storm forming offshore and they're not sure if it will pick up steam yet or if it will even turn towards the mainland, but they see the conditions are there and are watching closely," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health."[/quote]

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