
The Most Common COVID Symptoms Doctors Are Seeing This Summer
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Roughly half of U.S. states currently have increasing numbers of infections. Here's what you need to know.
Every summer for the past several years, including this summer, COVID cases have increased throughout the United States as people spend time in air-conditioned spaces and as summer travel peaks.
Roughly half of the states in the country currently have increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections, said Dr. Matthew Lokant, an infectious disease specialist at the West Virginia University School of Medicine.
“Most of those COVID-19 [infections] are associated with two newer variants being Nimbus and Stratus — these are the strains that are contributing to that seasonal surge that we’re currently seeing in the U.S.,” Lokant said.
Here are the main symptoms of a COVID infection this summer and what you can do to stay healthy:
COVID symptoms this summer look a lot like symptoms from earlier strains, such as fatigue, runny nose and a headache.













