A surge in coronavirus infections in Western Europe has experts and health authorities on alert for another wave of the pandemic in the United States even as most of the country has done away with restrictions after a sharp decline in cases.
The CDC could lose access to key metrics to track COVID-19, a casualty of the looming end to a wide swath of emergency powers the federal government has wielded to respond to the years-long pandemic.
(CNN) -- Two weeks after the United Kingdom dropped its last remaining COVID-19 mitigation measure -- a requirement that people who test positive for the virus isolate for five days -- the country is seeing cases and hospitalizations climb once again.
Europe tried to leave COVID-19 behind, but the rush to unwind restrictions is now setting the stage for a revival of pandemic risks. Accelerated by the emergence of BA.2 -- a more-transmissible strain of the omicron variant -- the virus has spread rapidly.