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 got it once back in November 2022 and I do not fucking want it again. That shit terrified me. I’m just lucky I didn’t get long COVID from that ordeal. The terrifying thing is that I’m set to go to a convention next week and I’m pretty damn sure that they will have no prevention protocols in place. Considering just eating the costs and not going at this point. A shame I won’t be able to meet my longtime internet friend and see her take her first dose of estradiol, but I would like to not die.