{"id":269264,"date":"2026-08-21T04:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269264\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:20:07","slug":"health-beat-covid-19-cases-on-the-rise-nationally-health-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269264\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Beat: COVID-19 cases on the rise nationally | Health Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is making a comeback even though the fall respiratory virus season hasn&#8217;t started yet.<\/p>\n<p>New data shows the national positivity rate in COVID tests has topped 3% for the first time since March, with numbers rising in every state.<\/p>\n<p>Health experts say the South and West are leading the wave.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, flu and RSV activity remain low, but health experts predict that COVID cases will keep climbing as summer travel continues, schools reopen, and immunity from old vaccinations wears off.<\/p>\n<p>If you develop symptoms, doctors advise testing immediately and staying home while you&#8217;re sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COVID-19 is making a comeback even though the fall respiratory virus season hasn&#8217;t started yet. New data shows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,23599,7619,9966,50254,113518,2303,113517,31770],"class_list":["post-269264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-flu","tag-pandemic","tag-positivity-rate","tag-public-health","tag-respiratory-virus","tag-rsv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}