Covid testing labs and at-home test manufacturers have been downsizing after government funding cuts and waning demand, despite concerns from health officials that the country could face another winter surge in infections.
, a professor at Arizona State University who has consulted with companies and institutions on testing.But since last winter, demand for testing has gone down and the White House has run out of money to keep purchasing tests on such a large scale, causing some companies to cut back on capacity.
"Waning immunity from the last Ba.5 round of infections and waning immunity from vaccination combined with people being indoors should combine to mean that we should see infections start to go back up starting in October and go up quite a bit," Murray said. “We need to prepare for the fall and winter. We don’t know if there’s any new wave, but we need to be ready because it’s happened for the last few winters,” said Jack Feng, CEO of iHealth. “We are always convinced there will be an end, but it always comes back.”
Part of that mindset comes from confidence in treatments, like Pfizer’s Paxlovid, that reduce the risk of severe disease, and new boosters specifically targeted at omicron, health officials said.
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