April 19, 2022 – It has become too familiar in recent years: people gather for the holidays, COVID-19 cases increase and hospitalizations follow.
Now, beyond our first batch of Christmas and New Year holidays – which has led to a massive increase in Omicron – the medical community is closely looking at a potential increase in cases.
The wait? There may be a small increase in cases related to the Easter and Easter holidays last weekend, but nothing resembles what we saw in the past, doctors predict. It will probably be another week, at least, until we know for sure, because the cases tend to appear in the days after the holidays.
“Even before the holidays, we were beginning to see a slight increase in cases, and I suspect that this may continue because of the holidays and the people who meet and spend time with people who are not usually around,” says Timothy Brewer. , MD, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at UCLA School of Medicine. “But we do not expect large increases as we have seen in the winter.”