The U.S. should prepare for a spike in COVID cases this winter as more people gather indoors and infections already begin to rise in Europe, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha says.
"We are seeing this increase in Europe, and Europe tends to precede us by about four to six weeks," Jha told NPR."And so it stands to reason that as we get into November, December, maybe January, we are going to see an increase in infections across much of the country."
Jha said the extent of any surge would come down to a number of factors, namely the precautions people take and the vaccination rates. While updated booster shots designed to target the omicron variants are now widely available, the CDC estimates only about 13 to 15 million people have already gotten one, compared to the more than 200 million adults in the U.S. who have received their primary series of vaccinations.This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.There are at least three subvariants that we're tracking very, very closely, all of which appear to have a lot more immune escape.
Now, let me be very clear, for some high-risk people — I think about my elderly parents who are in their 80s — they might need a shot more than once a year. They might need one again in the spring. But for a majority of people, we're at a point where it's a once-a-year shot, it's not that inconvenient, not that big a deal, and it's a great way to protect yourself.
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