A 2nd, More Deadly Wave This Winter?

There is fear in the United States that a second wave of COVID-19 may hit the country this coming winter – around December, January, and February – which would cause more infections and deaths than the present wave.

This feared second wave is expected to come at the same time as the influenza season, which annually exacts a toll of infections and deaths in the US. ”We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time,” said Director Robert Redfield of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The combination, he said, will put even greater strain on the nation’s health system than the first outbreak.

More than 45,000 have now died from COVID19 in the US, with some 810,000 infections. This has made the US the epicenter of the pandemic, its death toll exceeding those of China, Italy, Spain, and France.