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There’s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It


The US is in the midst of the largest Covid surge since Omicron, but with minimal testing and good population immunity, the wave is largely being ignored.

“It’s really encouraging that we don’t have a big parallel spike of hospitalizations,” says Eric Topol, professor of molecular medicine at the Scripps Research Translational Institute. “That’s really troubling for a variant that’s rapidly taking over,” says Mark Cameron, an infectious disease researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine—and especially worrying during the winter flu season. Despite getting circumstantially lumped in with other winter viruses, JN.1 is driving major waves in both hemispheres, including southern regions in the middle of summer.

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