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As the United States reports a giant wave of Covid-19 in the summer, the Food and Drug Administration is contemplating approving this year’s Covid-19 vaccines as soon as this week, according to a CNN report citing anonymous officials familiar. with the matter. case.
Last year, the FDA gave the green light to the 2023-2024 Covid shots on September 11, as the peak of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from that year’s summer wave approached. This year, the summer wave started further afield and, according to some indicators, peaks at much higher degrees than in previous years.
Currently, the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater has “very high” virus grades in 32 states and the District of Columbia. Eleven other states are indexed as having “high” titles. As for final products, the southern and western regions of the country are recently reporting levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater that rival the winter surges of 2022-23 and 2023-24, either of which peaked in late December.
SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater, by state.
Positive in orange.
Emergency room visits (orange) and deaths (blue).
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