“Hopefully, what we’ll see is that there are more cases, more illness, and then people say, ‘Wow, that was a bad cold.''
over the seven-day period ending on April 2, albeit with hospitalizations largely remaining unchanged. And as University of Washington Virology head Dr. Keith Jerome notes, there’s a strong chance that case counts could be even higher than what’s being reported.
With public testing sites have scaled back, a large portion of people are performing their own at-home rapid tests, which don’t get reported to local health agencies. For the cases that are getting reported, labs like UW Virology where roughly 2-4% of samples were coming up positive months ago are now seeing that rate rise up over 10%.
“It’s partially about the virus, but it’s also about us,” Dr. Jerome described. “Have we had COVID before? What’s the medical care like? We have a vaccine. Those are generally factors in our favor.”“Hopefully, what we’ll see is that there are more cases, more illness, and then people say, ‘Wow, that was a bad cold,’ or, ‘I missed a couple of days at work,’ or something,” he continued. “And that’s the majority of what we see.
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