07/03/2024

As FLiRT and LB.1 Variants Ascend, a COVID Summer Uptick is Underway

COVID infections are growing in nearly all states

Three years after President Joe Biden hoped July 4, 2021, would mark the country’s independence from COVID, the coronavirus is still here as new variants drive yet another summer uptick.

The country is indeed free from the waves of mass death that once overwhelmed hospitals and morgues, as well as policies restricting how Americans had fun and went to school and work.

But just as the American Revolution didn’t fully eradicate the British threat (see: the War of 1812), the coronavirus remains a public health issue, inflicting milder but disruptive illness on most people and posing a greater danger to the medically vulnerable.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.