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Using wastewater data- the only data that measures the amount of circulating COVID-19 in an era of inaccessible tests and discouraged reporting- infectious disease modeler J.P. Weiland estimates that the US has yet again crossed the million-infections-per-day mark as of August 9, with about 1 in 33 Americans currently infected with COVID-19.

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I’ve written before about how, in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, Fauci publicly declared that US COVID cases would need to fall “well below 10,000 a day” for us to get a “degree of normality,” and allow us to return to pre-pandemic life. In the nearly three years since, the US has never had a single day with under 10,000 new COVID cases per day; in fact, we have never had a single day with under 100,000 new COVID cases per day.

  • bananon [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    What’s the best booster for this recent variant? My girlfriend and I are going to a convention in 2 weeks and this is the last thing I want for us

    • macabrett[they/them]@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      They haven't released the new boosters yet, so you'll be getting one based on an old strain no matter what. The most important thing is that you get a booster like today if you want to have protection, peak protection isn't immediate.

    • Facky [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      The best time would've been 2 weeks ago, but the second best time is now. Like literally tomorrow.