[WaPo, via Dallas Morning News] A summer covid wave - and the accompanying fevers, coughs and general misery - continues to wash over the Americas and parts of Asia and Europe, including the Paris Olympics, offering the latest evidence that the coronavirus moves in ways distinct from other respiratory ailments.The World Health Organization said this week that the virus is increasing in at least 84 countries despite perceptions that the pathogen is a remnant of the past. Disease trackers sounded alarms that diminished testing and low vaccination rates could provide fertile terrain for more dangerous viral variants to take hold.
At least 40 athletes have tested positive for the coronavirus and other respiratory illnesses, suggesting that the virus may not exhibit the same seasonal patterns as the common cold, flu and respiratory syncytial virus - widely known as RSV - which tend to strike during cold-weather months.
So, of the 40 respiratory illnesses, how many are only COVID? How many athletes? Context, context, context. The usual 'journalism'.
"The virus continues to confound me in terms of what it’s doing and how it’s bucking the trends of seasonal patterns of respiratory illness," said Scott Roberts, an infectious-disease physician at Yale School of Medicine.
| His Yale profile says he is an assistant professor saddled with administrative duties. |
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