It may be lower than the omicron peak, but it's still killing 1500 Americans a week - and that's in a "quiet period".
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I finally caught it. I have all my shots including the latest and greatest booster, but after 3 years I finally got it.
It sucks. My symptoms were weirdly delayed. I felt sick (achy), then I got a really bad fever, slight sore throat, headache, and sneezed a bunch. But I didn't have a cough or congestion at all. Fast forward 8-9 days later, I'm starting to feel fine, hadn't had a fever since day 2-3...all the suddent I'm super congested, started coughing, lose my sense of smell and taste and felt kind shit again. No fever again but it has been a wild sickness. The doctor says it's just running it's course and that I'm not contagious anymore but it feels weird to not mask when I'm coughing and sneezing.
Is data from 2 weeks ago the best ABC can do??
Also I have COVID
The data is coming from the CDC. They need to wait for partnered hospitals to identify positive cases and sequence them for variant tracking. We're currently waiting for our contract with them to be approved again. They're getting very limited information right now, so things are probably even worse than they look. Yay!
Edit: the last update I got from my area says about 20% of people tested for covid are positive, including close to 10% of asymptomatic people. Stay safe, everyone!
Hope it passes soon for ya
Hey-hey! Me too!
Also, at my age, I’m neither the oldest or the youngest of Americans, so my anecdote means this data is null.