{"id":97904,"date":"2024-07-19T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/how-to-stay-healthy-during-the-covid-19-summertime-surge\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T15:19:09","slug":"how-to-stay-healthy-during-the-covid-19-summertime-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/how-to-stay-healthy-during-the-covid-19-summertime-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stay healthy during the COVID-19 summertime surge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A summer wave of COVID-19 is rising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s clearly a bump,\u201d says William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The medical center has seen a steady increase of hospital admissions for COVID-19 over the past three weeks, Schaffner says. \u201cThat was entirely expected, I\u2019m afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year, peaks of COVID-19 appear in the summer and again in the winter. Unlike influenza, which nearly disappears in the summer, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, hasn\u2019t settled into a seasonal pattern<\/a> (SN: 1\/29\/24<\/em>). It spreads whenever and wherever people gather indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n