DETROIT – As we head into fall, health experts are growing increasingly concerned about the amount of “COVID fatigue” many Americans are feeling. While many are impatient to move past the COVID-19 pandemic, with colder weather coming -- experts said the recommended precautions are more important than ever. Nearly two thirds of states in the U.S., including Michigan, have seen COVID-19 cases climb 10 percent or more in the past two weeks. “Now is not the time to be lax, so reinvigorate those infection control precautions,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Andrew Badley said. “For the second time in my life I thought about my own mortality,” COVID-19 survivor Rick Jeddeloh said.