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Warm weather won’t stop COVID, top US public health officials say while stressing vaccines are the answer

Warmer weather will not end the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation’s top public health officials warned on Monday.

“We have not seen seasonal trends,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, said in a news conference when asked if spring and summer temperatures alone may curb the deadly virus.

Walensky, along with White House pandemic advisers Andy Slavitt and Dr. Anthony Fauci, urged Americans to focus not on the weather but on getting vaccinated, maintaining social distancing and wearing masks at a time when cases are again spiking across the country.

Walensky noted that respiratory viruses tend to have seasonal trends, but when it comes to coronavirus, which has seen multiple surges and killed more than half a million Americans since hitting the U.S. more than a year ago, “we’re going to have to be careful throughout the spring and summer.”

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