Here we go again! LATimes: COVID-19 is 'heating up all around' this summer. Should we be wearing masks again?

The uptick in coronavirus transmission this summer has not brought major alarm from health experts.

But it is raising questions about whether the risks are high enough to go back to safety measures that many have abandoned.

Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious diseases expert, said transmission is increasing and "we haven't seen the crest yet" of the wave.

Most people have stopped wearing masks and aren't likely to follow suggestions to return to that practice all the time again.