New Covid vaccine that targets Omicron variant expected to be made available in September
  • frazorth@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I must live in a bubble because I have not known anyone in at least a year to come down with COVID.

    I can’t even imagine a mask mandate.

    In the USA

    Hang on, is it still a thing there? Or is this just the regular foam at the mouth frenzy of American reporting going over the top and blowing things out of proportion?

    • Lord_Logjam@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Most people won’t be testing themselves anymore. I have a few tests left over that I got from work but the vast majority of people will just put symptoms down to a cold and will likely only test if they end up going to hospital.

      • C4d@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        This is what I was going to say - you won’t find what you don’t test for, and these days next to no one outside specialist healthcare settings will be testing.

        Best we can hope for these days is that sewage monitoring is still in place.

    • CurrentBias@kbin.social
      3·
      10 months ago

      You might live in a bubble, because covid is everywhere

      Rapid tests that rely on nasal swabs are prone to false negatives, so a lot of people get mild symptoms like sniffles or an itchy throat, test negative, and then assume they don’t have covid when they actually might

      Mild symptoms don’t mean mild disease, either – there are people who never show symptoms and still end up with vascular damage. It’s never a good idea to only judge a virus by its acute symptoms