Carlos del Rio, MD Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Emory University
School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia Grady Health System, Atlanta.
Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and
Associate Editor,JAMA. JAMA Patient Page
Corresponding
Author: Carlos del Rio, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, 49
Jesse Hill Jr Dr, FOB Room 201, Atlanta, GA 30303 (cdelrio@
emory.edu).
Now in the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, well after the Omicron variant surge, both in the US and glob ally the number of daily cases had been declining to their lowest levels inmore than6months.While it seemed that SARS-CoV-2 was moving toward endemicity, US infec tions are again rising inMay 2022, and the reported num ber of cases is likely a gross underestimate of actual infec tions because many infections are unreported with increasingat-home testing.Several factorshelpexplain the current trends:… read more