The southern states need to be prepared for a possible spike in COVID-19 cases this summer, former White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birks said Sunday.
Driving the News: Birks told CBS “Face the Nation” that he expects to see a wave of COVID-19 cases in the South this summer, similar to those in 2020 and 2021.
- “What happens every time is that we’ve had a summer jump in the south and a winter jump that starts in our northern plains and is moving down, accelerated by Thanksgiving and the holidays,” Birks said.
- “Each of these jumps has an interval of about four to six months,” she added. “This tells me that natural immunity decreases enough in the general population after four to six months – that there will be a significant jump again.”
What she says: “We need to make it very clear to the American people that your protection against infection is diminishing,” she added.
- “So if you’re going to see your grandmother, or someone who has metastatic breast cancer, or someone who’s being treated for Hodgkin’s disease, or a family member with Down syndrome, you have to get tested before you go. .
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