Boston public health officials are urging residents to take extra precautions as COVID-19 cases tick up ahead of the upcoming holiday weekend.
It's also nearly three times higher than the 2.2% test positivity rate recorded one month ago.
"Celebrating with family and friends is an important and treasured time and, as cases increase, we must remain vigilant so we can be together safely," Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, Commissioner of Public Health and Executive Director of the BPHC, said in a statement."We have the tools … to stay safe and lower the risk of COVID-19 infection and severe illness."
Dr. Paul Sax, clinical director of the division of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said health officials had been preparing for an increase in the city after seeing cases rise in Western Europe due to BA.2 a few weeks ago."Whatever happens in Western Europe [with COVID-19] has been a harbinger of what's going to come in the United States," he told ABC News."You can almost set your calendar by it.
Experts suggested one reason why COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations may not be surging as they did during the winter is because so many people were infected during the omicron wave that they may have boosted their immunity.
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