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.
Avoided it primarily by being remote, boosting, and masking the last few years. I go to one fucking kids birthday party this past weekend and fucking got it.
classic
I’m fully remote and I’ve had it… honestly I don’t remember, I’m pretty sure twice, both relatively early on (2021). I sincerely wish I had been more careful. And now that booster vaccines, N95s, at home NAAT tests, etc. are available, nobody uses them. It’s fucking insane
Yeah I just restocked on N95s and shit, but I’m going back to full isolation for a while. People too crazy