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How to stay healthy during the COVID-19 summertime surge

Keeping up with vaccinations, testing and masking can help

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COVID-19 cases are surging this summer. Remember to pack a mask and COVID tests and practice good hand hygiene, infectious disease experts advise.

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By Tina Hesman Saey

A summer wave of COVID-19 is rising.

“There’s clearly a bump,” says William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The medical center has seen a steady increase of hospital admissions for COVID-19 over the past three weeks, Schaffner says.