Several key COVID-19 trends that authorities track are now accelerating around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. It’s the first major nationwide uptick in the spread of the virus seen in months.
The largest increases are in the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic, the agency said in its weekly report updated Friday, though virtually all regions of the country are now seeing accelerations.
Data reported by the agency from emergency rooms and wastewater sampling have tracked some of the steepest increases so far this season in the region spanning Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Rates of infections of nursing home residents across this Midwestern region have also soared in recent weeks, higher than in most other parts of the country, approaching levels not seen since the peak of last winter’s COVID-19 wave.
I mean, everyone’s back from Thanksgiving with family. Next up is Christmas.
And no one got the new boosters.
Immunity drops off fast, and you need regular boosters, it’s just a fact.
Get vaccinated.
it’s the new flu. the old flu is still a thing, of course. covid is here to stay & it’ll be a yearly thing for a long time to come.
Have they updated any of the vaccines recently? I wonder if that could be contributing o increased spread. Talked to a lady who just got Covid after getting her eighth shot.
I don’t believe the most recent vaccine released is fully up to date with the most recent ascendant variants. Unfortunately, even with the increased speed of conception and production that mRNA vaccines allow, large-scale viral pathogens still manage to mutate at a faster rate.
If the rate of spread was reduced through other measures than just vaccinations, we’d have a better capability to create up to date versions in time to be relevant.
But we’re not doing any such measures, are we?
Nice! Though is that included in the most recent booster?
I don’t think that one is available yet, but it could mean an end to this game of covid strain whack-a-mole.
Puts on tinfoil hat
Considering this research was published a year and a half ago, is any of it going into actual vaccine production? I feel like big pharma loves the idea of needing yearly or bi-yearly covid vaccines far more than the idea of a single vaccine that provides universal antibodies.
Overall people actually need to get the booster to build immunity. And just because you’re vaccinated doesn’t mean you won’t get sick at all. That’s not how this works.
You know that vaccine (including mRNA one) works by exposing you to the pathogen and it is still your immune system that fights it?
BTW: I don’t hear this being mentioned anywhere, but we already have a traditional covid vaccine called Novavax.
mRNA vaccines do not contain or expose you to the pathogen.
