The COVID summer wave is here; What alarms doctors the most

The Covid summer wave is here Infections are most likely rising in at least 39 states, driven in part by a trio of new variants. NBC News

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Several variants are likely to be contributing to the nationwide trend, said Dr. Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

“We’re seeing the start of an uptick of infections that is coincident with new variants that are developing: KP.2 and KP.3 and LB.1. It does appear that those variants do have an advantage over the prior ones,” he said.

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