{"id":21523,"date":"2025-02-04T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21523"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:33:04","slug":"the-u-s-is-having-its-mildest-covid-winter-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21523","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Is Having Its Mildest Covid Winter Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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But there have been plenty of other illnesses to go around.<\/p>\n

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This winter\u2019s Covid wave in the United States has been the gentlest to date, in a welcome reprieve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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According to wastewater data<\/a> aggregated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, not only was there less Covid circulating over the holidays than in previous years, but there was also less virus in the wastewater than in all the summer waves the program has tracked.<\/p>\n

The Covid hospitalization rate stayed around half of what it was last year, and deaths fell too. In late December, around 600 people were dying each week<\/a>. Last winter at that time, it was around 2,000. (During the Omicron surge at the end of 2021, weekly deaths were topping 10,000.)<\/p>\n

Although wastewater levels can\u2019t tell us how many individual cases of Covid there are, the recent data reflects a significant lull in the virus\u2019s five-year assault.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is definitely the mildest Covid winter,\u201d said Michael Mina, an epidemiologist and chief science officer for eMed. \u201cIn terms of hospitalizations, in terms of spread.\u201d<\/p>\n