The Terrible Déjà Vu of COVID-19’s Winter Surge
The coronavirus is now resurgent in some of the states hardest hit in the spring and summer.
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Back in the spring, before the first surge of the coronavirus had fully diminished, public-health experts were already warning of a second surge. Shutdowns were ending and public spaces reopening, but as the months turned cold, they said, cases could spike again—more dramatically, even, than in the first wave.
The reprieve after the first wave, though, was short: . As northerners were, where the virus spreads most easily, and the country’s summer surge began.
