and it never reached the lows of 2021, be careful out there. Permanent brain damage, autoimmune diseases, and heart failure are not things to take lightly.
Looks like every variant right now is one of the XBBs. Test positivity has also been on the rise. These are the main indicators we have now that hospitals aren't testing for covid by default.
https://biobot.io/data/
Everyone I know with a kid in daycare has caught COVID at least once this summer. I'd almost forgotten this was a thing until three of my coworkers called in the same day, all having tested positive over the weekend.
Incidentally, admins took down all the shoulder-height cube walls with sneeze glass that they put up back in 2021 to get people back in the office originally. So...
From what I can see where I am it's about 5 copies/mL which is way lower than what that shows for the US. Almost makes me worry it's not accurate but idk, maybe it's really that bad in the US
Oh, I know.
"Thanks for not saying, 'It's time for America's Favorite Game: How Many Covid Infections Does It Take To Kill You?🎉🎉🎉 on your instagram story."
Yeah, about that.😅
Covid can be found in your feces if you have an active infection, so for the past few years wastewater has been tested on site for covid. Think of it like they're sticking a test strip into sewage at a water treatment plant (I don't know how they actually do it, its just a way to visualize). That's one of the few ways left we have to track the prevalence of covid. Currently, sampling of wastewater indicates that the number of active infections is going up.
I don't know how they actually do it, its just a way to visualize
I assume they use the same machine they used to make Honey I Shrunk the Kids to make their interns very, very small, then send them in to the poop to do a hand count.
