As predicted by covid variant tracker nerds on twitter in recent weeks, JN.1 is exploding. A 40% increase in covid cases since last week. Most sequences coming in to variant trackers are JN.1.
The biobot chart shows the last six months, if you zoom out we are at or approaching covid levels not seen since last winter, so not totally unexpected… but the CDC expects cases to peak in February. However JPWieland predicts it will peak after christmas due to the rapid growth of JN.1.
There are also outlier cities in Europe showing more covid in wastewater than ever measured during the pandemic. Canada isn’t doing much better. The UK isn’t doing well either.
Along with covid, flu and RSV are also hitting pretty hard at the same time, especially in the South, with a touch of mystery pneumonia in various places around the world as a treat.
Thankfully the latest vaccine helps against this variant. Unfortunatly vaccine uptake rates are abysmal now because capitalism.
I’m mainly still posting about covid out of anxiety and watching the health of friends and family who have been infected and “were fine” slowly deteriorate.
Good luck, everyone.
EDIT:
The CDC director is recommending wearing masks. So things will probably get pretty bad…
The problem is other people, not you
You can’t be expected to care 10x as much just because 90% of people refused to wear masks inside even back in 2020. Also it’s not like this would accomplish anything because you can’t make up for their unmasking by wearing 10x as many masks lol
it’s not just the government’s fault for making the disease (https://imgur.com/a/CRwan3n), for hiding the urgency of it in the early days (“Don’t wear masks and ride the subway” – Fauci March 2020), and for not instituting an ACTUAL quarantine. It’s also the people’s fault because they couldn’t even wear a piece of fucking cloth over their face
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