U.S. Covid-19 Recovery Hits a Bump as Winter Draws Near
- Covid hospital admissions on the rise in 13 states: HHS data
- If past trends hold, U.S. is headed for another Covid upswing
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The U.S.’s two-month run of Covid-19 improvements may be coming to an end, in what’s become a seasonal cycle of viral ebb and flow.
That’s not to say that conditions will imminently start deteriorating, but they’ve stopped getting better, much as they did after previous recoveries. Similar to the summer surge of 2020, the 2021 Delta wave peaked in early September, giving way to two straight months of falling cases, hospitalizations and deaths.