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News|Videos|July 10, 2025
SARS-CoV-2 Corona Virus: COVID-19 and the Global Pandemic
COVID-19 remains a serious player in the 2024–2025 viral lineup. Here’s how it spread and what can be expected next.
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In the conversation of viruses, COVID-19’s ongoing impact cannot be ignored. Although hospitalizations and deaths have decreased, the virus continues to circulate, especially among the immunocompromised and elderly. Learn how the virus spreads, how new strains are monitored, and why “long COVID” and new animal-human transmission threats like HKU5-CoV2 keep COVID-19 in the public health spotlight.
Resources:
https://www.cdc.gov/covid/signs-symptoms/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/covid/about/index.html
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00
https://www.cdc.gov/covid/php/surveillance/burden-estimates.html
https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/communicable-disease/coronavirus
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