Chicago’s COVID metrics saw a slight increase over the last week as health officials closely watch for signs of a surge due to the BA.2 variant, but the city’s top doctor said the levels remain “very much in control.”
Arwady said while the COVID risk remains low in the city, data shows the number of cases of the BA.2 subvariant are doubling every week.
"We often look at Europe as being that kind of bellwether of 2, 3, 4 weeks kind of ahead of us," he said."So are we going to see this kind of increase in a month or so? And we just don't know." "We are very much seeing large surges of COVID in much of Europe," Arwady said, adding that"parts of this world right now look like Chicago did in early January in terms of numbers of cases."
"I'm not expecting a big surge here, but we're gonna have to pay close attention and really be driven by data as we have throughout the whole pandemic," White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said last week. Dr. Isaac Ghinai, medical director for lab-based surveillance at the Chicago Department of Public Health, said he doesn't believe BA.2 will lead to a surge like the one previously seen during the omicron peak, but changes are expected"at some point."
"We're still trying to figure out why are we seeing this rising number of cases in some of these countries in Europe and that is because there's something markedly different about the virus," he said."So is it more transmissible? Are more people going to become infected from one infected individual? There might be some markers of that."
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