people are feeling like they just have regular cold symptoms and they re doing their at-home covid test and coming up negative but then come to find out they may have covid-19 after all? yep. i m seeing a lot of people are getting tested. if you test and you re negative and you still think you might have covid, yeah, summer colds could be covid unfortunately. go to your urgent care and get a pcr test. that helps you make the diagnosis. then you can decide to mask again in congested spaces and decide to get paxlovid, which is a very underutilized medication that decreases the number of days that you re sick. what s the window? well, within the first five days is when you want to get on their medicine. not every physician is prescribing it, but i have read studies where it might decrease your risk of long covid. if you have a summer cold, don t assume it s a cold.
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angrily throwing his racket at the side of the net during the fifth set. djokovic was denied his 25th grand slam his 24th great grand slam title after losing to carlos alcaraz. if you ve had a cold recently, you are not alone. summer colds are on the rise at a rate we haven t seen in years. so what s driving it dr. john torres explains. reporter: the temperatures might be sosoaring, but f for many americans, that hasn t stopped the cold the common cold, that is it s the worst cold that i have gotten reporter: across the country it started off with sneezing, then congestion. reporter: it s been the summer of sniffles just a lot of, you know, runny nose, always keeping tissues next to me reporter: so the numbers you re seeing now more than during the pandemic more than during the pandemic, absolutely reporter: dr. larissa pisney specializes in infectious diseases at the university of colorado hospital uc health we re hearing from a
saying in a statement today, carlee s 911 call remains the only timely report of a child on the interstate priscilla is with us now. what s next in this investigation, priscilla? reporter: yeah, kate, carlee russell was released from the hospital today police say that they have spoken to her and are following up on the information she provided kate all right, priscilla for us, thank you. we re back in a moment with summer colds on the rise, even as temperatures heheat up acroross the country.
which did not break through. and thankfully now a large portion of the country is vaccinated. is what you re seeing now, does it give you concern that the delta variant particularly in those low vaccination areas will break through in a significant way? yeah, that is my concern. our state epidemiologists confirmed that we have delta in the northeast oklahoma region. what i m seeing personally in a lot of colleagues is that it is getting a younger population. they re having different symptoms from the original covid outbreak, so more headache and sore throat but not the loss of smell and taste so people are not thinking i might have covid, so we re really encouraging people if you have any of the symptoms there is not a whole lot of summer colds or rsv, but get tested so we know where the pocks are and we have treatments if used early.