COVID-19 case levels are really high right now, although it is difficult to quantify because of the lack of test reporting and tracking, said Dr. Helmut Albrecht, medical director of the Center of Infectious Diseases Research and Policy for Prisma Health and the University of South Carolina. There are 50 hospitalized with COVID in the Prisma system.
“We should take this seriously again,” he said, advising people to once again mask up in public.
Those who have not gotten a second COVID-19 booster in the last six months and are age 50 and over should get one, he said. Not taking precautions now may mean “eventually your luck will run out with this,” Albrecht said.
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported nearly 13,800 new COVID-19 cases and 13 new deaths related to the virus from July 10-16.https://t.co/dbfQnzlkWE
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