• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    I haven’t checked the wastewater numbers recently but people have been throwing around "amost as bad as omicron. I’m going to christmas, sure, but i’m wearing a p100 full face mask on the plane.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      The biobot numbers have been weird - Northeast region is way up, but the south and west are below where they were this summer. EG.5 and HV.1 are the dominant strains, which is strange given that the CDC reports that JN.1 currently accounts for almost a third of cases.

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          It’s really unnerving to have access to so much information but then feel completely in the dark. BioBot doesn’t have that many sampling locations and there’s obviously a lot of variability even within a region, so even our best look is pretty imperfect. This sort of thing should be inexcusable in an era of cheap data.

      • crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        Anecdotally: I got my first covid infection as part of that spike, despite getting the latest booster a month prior and being fully vaxed. I did manage to avoid giving it to my wife, though, so based on my sample size (n=2) the new variant(s) driving it are indeed immune-invading, but don’t seem to be more obscenely contagious than normal for covid.

        (I unironically blame dialing back my cannabis use for the infection)