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Dr. Bryce Munson with Overlake Medical Center and Clinics said she and fellow practitioners have been seeing an uptick in patients with COVID-19 and the flu, and she's encouraging people to take precautions heading into the fall season.
"For about the last month we've definitely had an uptick in COVID," Dr. Munson said. "In our clinics we do test-to-treat, meaning if you've had symptoms for five days and are a candidate for Paxlovid, we test you, and those test results are showing about a 39% positivity rate in our clinics, and that's not even counting the folks who are doing home testing."
Dr. Munson said over the last week, providers have also tested for influenza with classic flu symptom, including several positive Influenza A cases in people who'd traveled recently.
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