Key Takeaways
- Case rates of COVID-19 are at a seasonal low. COVID-19 hospitalization rates in Virginia rose slightly with a 29% increase from the previously recorded week.
- New York City has detected a high concentration of COVID-19 in the wastewater. Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have not begun to rise, indicating that this may be a early warning of a wave.
- Maryland has confirmed its first case of measles since 2019 in Montgomery County, which borders DC and Virginia.
- Canadian wildfire smoke caused air quality alerts and flight delays for millions of people in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. New York City had the worst air pollution of any major city in the world at one point Tuesday night.
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