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The mixed or mashed or mix-mashed messaging has been a major problem all along. Here's an example of the problem, headlines, 4 days apart.
From 3 January... Covid Has Resurged, but Scientists See a Diminished Threat
From today... A viral social media post claims 1 in 3 people will get COVID this winter. Is it true?
So... 4 days ago, there were no signs of a severe wave, we were looking good, don't use wastewater measurements, use hospitalizations.
Today... We're in the 2nd largest COVID wave in history, since CDC no longer tracks COVID tests, use wastewater data, mask up, get vaccinated/boosters, we're all gonna die
Uh... Let's see... Is it possible...
We're now a week post-Holiday gatherings. Just the right amount of time for incubation to have occurred for things like flu and COVID. The national rate, according to wastewater measurements (deemed less 'reliable' a metric than hospitalizations) is slightly less than half of what it was at approximately this time last year. Even weekly hospitalizations are increasing more slowly than in previous years. The symptoms remain the same and are largely dependent upon one's underlying health.
It makes one wonder if actually having to pay, out-of-pocket, for vaccines and boosters, masking up, paying for tests, stocking up on antivirals, long-term care facilities gathering patients in large groups so they can perform weatherproofing maintenance in January (ahem, ask me how I know), etc. is more a way to keep the monies flowing to the medical industry than it is about concerns regarding another COVID wave.
From 3 January... Covid Has Resurged, but Scientists See a Diminished Threat
The holidays have come and gone, and once again Americans are riding a tide of respiratory ailments, including Covid. But so far, this winter's Covid uptick seems less deadly than last year's, and much less so than in 2022, when the Omicron surge ground the nation to a halt.
"We're not seeing the signs that would make me think that we're heading into another severe wave," said Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "So far, we're in relatively good shape."...
Some scientists have pointed to rising levels of the virus in sewage samples as an indicator that infections are at least as high this year as they were at this time last year. But Dr. Rivers urged caution in interpreting wastewater data as a proxy for infections and said hospitalizations were a more reliable metric...
And weekly hospitalizations are increasing more slowly than in previous years, Dr. Rivers said...
Even if the Covid vaccine does not prevent infection, it can shorten the duration and severity of illness, and minimize the risk of long-term symptoms, including brain fog, fatigue, movement problems and dizziness - collectively known as long Covid...
Many nursing home residents and staff members remain unvaccinated, because the staff doesn't understand the benefits, said Dr. Karan, who worked with nursing facilities in Los Angeles County...
"We're not seeing the signs that would make me think that we're heading into another severe wave," said Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "So far, we're in relatively good shape."...
Some scientists have pointed to rising levels of the virus in sewage samples as an indicator that infections are at least as high this year as they were at this time last year. But Dr. Rivers urged caution in interpreting wastewater data as a proxy for infections and said hospitalizations were a more reliable metric...
And weekly hospitalizations are increasing more slowly than in previous years, Dr. Rivers said...
Even if the Covid vaccine does not prevent infection, it can shorten the duration and severity of illness, and minimize the risk of long-term symptoms, including brain fog, fatigue, movement problems and dizziness - collectively known as long Covid...
Many nursing home residents and staff members remain unvaccinated, because the staff doesn't understand the benefits, said Dr. Karan, who worked with nursing facilities in Los Angeles County...
The United States is in the middle of a wintertime COVID wave, driven by holiday gatherings, people spending more time inside, waning immunity from low uptake of the new COVID vaccine and a new highly infectious COVID variant, JN.1.
A viral social media post based on data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is calling this surge the second-biggest COVID wave in the history of the U.S. - after the omicron surge from late 2021 to early 2022, which infected more people than even the early days of the pandemic...
Yes, the U.S. is in the middle of a COVID wave, multiple experts tell TODAY.com.
The CDC no longer tracks positive COVID tests and instead relies on presence of the virus wastewater to determine how widespread it is.
Indeed, a CDC chart of national and regional COVID trends in wastewater shows the national viral activity rate of 11.23 from the week ending Dec. 23, 2023 (the most recent data available) is higher than anything seen since January 2022, as far back as the publicly available CDC data goes. The national rate for the week ending Jan. 15, 2022, was 22.78. What's more, the next round of CDC wastewater data may show a further rise in viral activity after accounting for infections from Christmas gatherings, experts say...
A viral social media post based on data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is calling this surge the second-biggest COVID wave in the history of the U.S. - after the omicron surge from late 2021 to early 2022, which infected more people than even the early days of the pandemic...
Yes, the U.S. is in the middle of a COVID wave, multiple experts tell TODAY.com.
The CDC no longer tracks positive COVID tests and instead relies on presence of the virus wastewater to determine how widespread it is.
Indeed, a CDC chart of national and regional COVID trends in wastewater shows the national viral activity rate of 11.23 from the week ending Dec. 23, 2023 (the most recent data available) is higher than anything seen since January 2022, as far back as the publicly available CDC data goes. The national rate for the week ending Jan. 15, 2022, was 22.78. What's more, the next round of CDC wastewater data may show a further rise in viral activity after accounting for infections from Christmas gatherings, experts say...
Today... We're in the 2nd largest COVID wave in history, since CDC no longer tracks COVID tests, use wastewater data, mask up, get vaccinated/boosters, we're all gonna die
Uh... Let's see... Is it possible...
We're now a week post-Holiday gatherings. Just the right amount of time for incubation to have occurred for things like flu and COVID. The national rate, according to wastewater measurements (deemed less 'reliable' a metric than hospitalizations) is slightly less than half of what it was at approximately this time last year. Even weekly hospitalizations are increasing more slowly than in previous years. The symptoms remain the same and are largely dependent upon one's underlying health.
It makes one wonder if actually having to pay, out-of-pocket, for vaccines and boosters, masking up, paying for tests, stocking up on antivirals, long-term care facilities gathering patients in large groups so they can perform weatherproofing maintenance in January (ahem, ask me how I know), etc. is more a way to keep the monies flowing to the medical industry than it is about concerns regarding another COVID wave.
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