Aaron Derfel on a new Covid wave
Aaron Derfel tells us about the new wave of Covid and the rush to develop an updated vaccine to face a new subvariant.
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MarcG 07:32 on 2024-07-08 Permalink
The CDC published an article a few days ago titled COVID-19 can surge throughout the year that includes this very illustrative graph.
Dominic 10:16 on 2024-07-08 Permalink
Yup. Definitely caught it again last week, still knocked out flat after four days. Its going around.
Kate 10:20 on 2024-07-08 Permalink
I’d noticed a few more masks around the streets lately, so there’s definitely some awareness of a surge.
MarcG 11:31 on 2024-07-08 Permalink
Something else to consider is that Covid never has an off-season the way Flu and RSV do. There’s a constant baseline of ~5% that we haven’t dipped below in the past couple of years. https://health-infobase.canada.ca/respiratory-virus-detections/
EmilyG 12:52 on 2024-07-08 Permalink
I know that Covid is still around, and still pretty common.
Also, I see a lot of people (and news articles, etc.) talking about “post-pandemic” and “during Covid” as though it’s mostly in the past.
i still wear a mask in public most of the time. But I sometimes get confused about what to do. What activities are safe, and the like.
CE 14:30 on 2024-07-08 Permalink
My girlfriend had it a couple weeks ago. She dusted off the rapid tests and tested twice and it only came up positive when she was almost over it. It was mostly a bad cold that lingered for a while. I live with her and only got tired for a few days (tested negative). Kind of the same feeling I’d get after a Covid vaccine but longer.
Hopefully as the virus evolves it just becomes a mild cold like the other coronaviruses that circulate.
jeather 16:20 on 2024-07-08 Permalink
I know people who were knocked out for a week and still recovering a week later from this variant, generally healthy vaccinated people. I don’t think you want to count on mild yet.
MarcG 17:23 on 2024-07-08 Permalink
There is evidence of SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence which puts it in a different category from the transient coronaviruses associated with the common cold. One positive of the pandemic has been a lot of research into the long-term impacts other viruses like influenza, Epstein-Barr virus (recently shown to be a leading cause of multiple sclerosis), and the possible viral origin of ME/CFS. A good summary here. Don’t judge a virus by the acute phase.