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Experts expect cases to rise again this winter. Here’s the latest on symptoms, treatments and testing.
By Dani Blum
Dani Blum has been reporting on Covid since spring 2020.
There are few constants when it comes to Covid, but one thing has held true over the years: Cases climb in the winter.
Especially in the weeks after the holidays, more people tend to be in poor health because we spend time together indoors, sharing germs and spreading infections.
“It looks like the wave is coming,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco.
Wastewater data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently shows the highest levels of the virus circulating across the country. Deaths and hospitalizations from the virus have increased in recent weeks. And a new variant, XEC, now accounts for almost part of the country’s Covid cases. This is what you want to know.
Covid symptoms have remained largely the same in recent years: cough, congestion, fever, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath, headaches and body aches. People with Covid are exhausted. Some other people lose their sense of taste or smell.
Covid may look at another every time they are infected; The symptoms do not progress in the same way. While you had a sore throat last time, this time you may have more gastrointestinal symptoms.
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