![]() ![]() "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. ![]() "For most people, these early signs don't need to mean much," he says. So the CDC has no plans to change recommendations for what most people should do, like encourage widescale masking again. That could change in the coming weeks if hospitalizations keep increasing, but that's not an inevitability, Jackson says. 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. Most of the hospitalizations are among older people. "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. Rise in cases looks like a jump at the end of ski slopeīut overall, the numbers remain very low - far lower than in the last three summers. The increases vary around the country, with the virus appearing to be spreading the most in the southeast and the least in the Midwest, Jackson says. Hospitalizations jumped 10% to 7,109 for the week ending July 15, from 6,444 the previous week, according to the latest CDC data. ![]()
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