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WVUA23: Health Officials Concerned COVID-19 Will Spread With Summer Travel
COVID-19 cases are on the rise across the country, including right here in Alabama. In Tuscaloosa County, this means an average of 46 cases each day. In Florida, at least three variants of Omicron are spreading just this week, with a seven-day daily average of more than 10,200 cases. Though these numbers are estimated, health officials are concerned for summer travel, believing the numbers are higher because many people are overlooking their symptoms.
Dr. Keisha Lowther of Whatley Health Services said symptoms commonly attributed to seasonal allergies and colds have just as good a chance of being COVID-19.
“If you don’t know and you continue to spread it in the community, you continue to be out in public at church, the grocery stores at concerts, weddings and that runny nose, that cough, that throat irritation that you are saying may be allergies may actually be COVID. So, that is contributing to why we’re continuing to see it spread in the community,” she said.
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