Several rising coronavirus subvariants — including BA.2.75, BA.4.6, BF.7, BQ.1.1, and XBB — have raised fears of a winter COVID-19 surge. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from Poynter, NPR and dcexaminer: COVID19 BQ11
The U.S. should prepare for a spike in COVID cases this winter as more people gather indoors and infections already begin to rise in Europe, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha says.
The warning echoes that of some other experts who anticipate a rise in cases in the coming months, while other modelling suggests that infections will recede in the near future. "We are seeing this increase in Europe, and Europe tends to precede us by about four to six weeks," Jha told NPR."And so it stands to reason that as...
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