The Delta wave of Covid-19 has peaked in some states. Others brace for what’s next via WSJ
is reason for caution. The seven-day average in U.K. cases in July plummeted from a peak of around 48,000 cases a day to under 26,000 later that month, only to start climbing again. By late last month the average had reached about 35,000, national data show.
“What was in the South is now going to spread due north and then west,” said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. “I think the wave that hit Florida, Arkansas and others, we’re just starting to see it,” said Alex Jahangir, an orthopedic surgeon and chair of the Covid-19 task force in Nashville.
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