Doctor warns next coronavirus surge is coming sooner than we think

by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.

Posted: Jul 26, 2021 / 05:15 PM EST / Updated: Jul 26, 2021 / 05:16 PM EST

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Viral illnesses thin to dilatory down during the summer, but the coronavirus appears to beryllium doing conscionable the other arsenic the Delta variant sweeps the nation.

News 8’s Dr. Mary Gillis spoke with Dr. Amy Beth Kressel, an infectious illness adept astatine Eskenazi Health, who says a much almighty question is coming arsenic the cooler, dryer temperatures get successful the coming weeks.

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Below is the implicit interview:

Gillis: Do you person immoderate thoughts astir the coronavirus and what to expect arsenic we determination into the autumn and wintertime months?

Kressel: I don’t know. We privation to get schools open. There is simply a batch of statement astir whether kids should deterioration masks successful schoolhouse and I cognize antithetic schoolhouse districts person had antithetic ideas. Maybe kids don’t person to deterioration masks if everyone is vaccinated.

I don’t cognize what we’re going to beryllium seeing past due to the fact that arsenic I said we person seen these waves of infection. Last summertime infections dropped aboriginal successful the summertime and roseate again successful the fall. We’re inactive seeing much variants. COVID is not successful power extracurricular the U.S. and what happens extracurricular of our state volition impact us.

I don’t person a crystal ball, but I deliberation it is precise imaginable infections volition beryllium rising successful the autumn arsenic schools open. And I privation schools to beryllium open, but I deliberation we person to beryllium truly thoughtful astir whether oregon not kids should deterioration masks and adjacent with vaccines possibly they volition person to deterioration masks. It depends connected however galore radical are vaccinated.

A pupil, wearing a look mask, learns during a summertime task astatine the superior schoolhouse ‘Sonnenschule’ successful Beckum, occidental Germany, connected July 6, 2021. – North-Rhine Westphalia’s Minister of Education and Schools visits projects that person received backing from the authorities programme “Extra Time for Learning” during the summer. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)