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.
I was at the point of thinking "fuck, do I need to go to the hospital?" at the worst of it but my fever wasn't dangerous and my O2 level stayed in a safe range so I didn't, but there were a couple nights where it was bad enough that it hurt too much to fall asleep despite being exhausted? I've had recurring chronic fatigue and some minor tendonitis and brain fog kinda symptoms since, but idk if that's related and I don't have health insurance so I've been hesitant to get anything looked at unless "shit am I dying?" crosses my mind