Toward the end of the summer and the start of the school year, COVID-19 cases were high across the country, with lots of people dealing with fatigue, congestion, headache, sore throat and other bothersome symptoms.
This is all part of the predictable COVID pattern, but what about cases now?
“COVID has a summer peak, and then it wanes a little bit, and then ... what it has been doing is picking up again around Thanksgiving and Christmas, as people start gathering,” said Dr. Jill Foster, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
At the moment, we’re in a lull from COVID-19, Foster said. This may feel like a breath of fresh air for those afraid of catching the virus, but this doesn’t mean COVID cases aren’t around at all.
According to Suruchi Sood, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, there are some Centers for Disease Control COVID tracking delays partly because of the government shutdown. But from the data that is available and anecdotally in her own practice, “We don’t seem to be seeing, thankfully, yet, an uptick of COVID.”
