https://biobot.io/data/covid-19

This is normally the time of year when our lull starts to kick in, but there's spikes still happening all over the country. It's frankly rather depressing to look at the last 6 month view and over and over seeing county after county stop reporting data and then just seeing random counties spiking at an all time high. Whatever wave we went through over the holidays is still going strong. Mask up, nasal spray, and be careful out there when you have to go out.

ngl, I'm curious to see if this is the end of lulls at a nationwide level. doomer We'll have to see how much immunity all these JN.1 infections are giving people to the other variants out there.

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    8 months ago

    Because people's scattered immunities are so out of sync, we're not seeing just one big spike. We're seeing a spike in county A, while county B has enough people with immunity to prevent spiking, but then county C spikes off of county A and then county B wears off just in time to spike off County C.

    That's how it's been in my area for the past year. My town just started getting hit a couple weeks ago, and is probably peaking now. Meanwhile a town 100 miles away had their covid wave in early January. We have a wave every 2-3 months, so I wonder if that's just how everything is now. A big wave shows up when enough places are in sync, but if they aren't then it appears as an extended high base level over several months and slowly tapers off until a new variant emerges and restarts the cycle, but maybe it won't taper off this year.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, that's what I've been suspecting for a while now. You gotta figure there's more than 3000 counties in the US and we're barely even scratching the surface. The amount of spikes we've not been seeing must be just wild. Stopping lockdowns and masking was made only more chaotic by the fact that it wasn't coordinated in any way. So some places probably missed entire mini waves and it's variants gone wild out there until we get one like JN.1 or Omicron that "wipes the board."