Test positivity, emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths are increasing as expert warns: ‘It’s still dangerous’

Summary

Covid cases are surging across the U.S. post-holidays, with rising test positivity, hospitalizations, and deaths, while booster uptake remains low.

Only 21.4% of adults and 10.3% of children have received the latest booster, leaving vulnerable groups, including the elderly, at higher risk.

Experts warn of continued dangers from Covid, including long Covid and economic impacts, as the virus has not yet reached an endemic state.

With uncertain federal priorities, researchers stress the importance of monitoring infections, updating vaccines, and using preventive measures to mitigate future waves.

  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    4 days ago

    Norovirus is far and away the worst thing I’ve ever gotten. I cannot emphasize how much it sucked to be shit-puking every 20 minutes for three days. Sip of water? Hour on the toilet somehow. It made no sense. Where was the liquid coming from?

    From the ghost hitting me in the stomach with a bat every 30s I guess.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      5·
      4 days ago

      I had something like that when I was a lot younger. I had pneumonia recently. I had to take a week off work, and I work from home. Was down and out for the entirety of November, it started coming back mid-December, but I was smart enough to notice right away and got a third round of antibiotics.

      Pneumonia was worse, in my opinion. However, I am told that norovirus is only killed by bleach - not by hand sanitizer or ammonia-based wipes. And that you’re contagious for a couple of weeks after your symptoms start, so people “get better” after three or four days, then go wandering out in the world unwittingly spreading infection. That’s just plain evil.