Some readers may have hoped that the declining coronavirus trends might persuade newspaper editors to relegate the subject to small spaces in their back pages. That’s probably not going to happen soon.
Trouble is, the virus is still out there.
“Covid-19 is on the rise in the Americas and won’t go away soon,” the Pan American Health Organization (OPS) declared this week. Cases in the Americas rose 27.2 percent last week from the previous week, mainly due to a spike in infections in the United States, the organization said. The Washington Post quoted a White House Covid coordinator as saying the infections have been driven by “incredibly contagious subvariants.”
The Post also noted that hospitalizations for Covid in the United States have increased 57 percent since bottoming out six weeks ago, although the 23,000 patients in hospitals over the last week still represent nearly the lowest hospitalization levels of the entire pandemic.
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