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COVID cases are on a downward trend. How long will this last?

USA Today COVID-19 cases continue to fall throughout the country after a large summer wave peaked in early August, surveillance data shows.

The percentage of positive COVID-19 tests dropped from 17.8% the week of Aug. 10 to 14.9% the week of Sept. 7, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Walgreens’s national respiratory disease tracker showed a similar trend.

Summer travel for vacations and gatherings typically drives a large wave of COVID-19 cases, said Emily Smith, an infectious diseases and epidemiology expert at GW Milken Institute of Public Health.

But this last wave “was a particularly big one,” she said.

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