What’s Going Around: viruses impacting Katy, League City, Baytown and Cypress

HOUSTON – Despite being smack in the middle of summer months, common colds, strep throat, and COVID are making people sick right now.

LEAGUE CITY

Upper Respiratory Infection, strep throat, and COVID are going around in the League City area, according to MinuteClinic Senior Practice Manager, Linda Moghalu.

KATY

CVS MinuteClinic also said the Katy clinics are seeing a lot of strep throat.

HUMBLE

MinuteClinic Family Nurse Practitioner, Macqualine Triplett, said, “I am mostly seeing allergic rhinitis, rhino-sinusitis viral/bacterial, and streptococcal tonsillitis.”

BAYTOWN

According to the data from Houston Methodist, between May and July, Rhinovirus and COVID were higher than other illnesses like flu and RSV.

The Texas Medical Center and Baytown locations had the highest rates of COVID-19 than other Houston Methodist locations.

CYPRESS

Cypress had the fewest of all cases of illnesses reported within the Houston Methodist system between May and July.

SUMMER TRAVEL

Dr. Mike Ren, Baylor College of Medicine family physician, said, “We have had a good amount of COVID and flu still.”

Nationwide COVID cases are going back up as the Nimbus variant circulates…

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