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Next Up - Summer COVID on the Rise!

2024-08-08

[WaPo, via Dallas Morning News] A summer covid wave - and the accompanying fevers, coughs and general misery - continues to wash over the Americas and parts of Asia and Europe, including the Paris Olympics, offering the latest evidence that the coronavirus moves in ways distinct from other respiratory ailments.

The World Health Organization said this week that the virus is increasing in at least 84 countries despite perceptions that the pathogen is a remnant of the past. Disease trackers sounded alarms that diminished testing and low vaccination rates could provide fertile terrain for more dangerous viral variants to take hold.

At least 40 athletes have tested positive for the coronavirus and other respiratory illnesses, suggesting that the virus may not exhibit the same seasonal patterns as the common cold, flu and respiratory syncytial virus - widely known as RSV - which tend to strike during cold-weather months.
So, of the 40 respiratory illnesses, how many are only COVID? How many athletes? Context, context, context. The usual 'journalism'.
"The virus continues to confound me in terms of what it’s doing and how it’s bucking the trends of seasonal patterns of respiratory illness," said Scott Roberts, an infectious-disease physician at Yale School of Medicine.

His Yale profile says he is an assistant professor saddled with administrative duties.

Roberts suggests that a vaccine twice a year to address the surges might be an important step in minimizing summer spread.

Posted by:Bobby

#6 Everyone I know who has flown on a plane recently comes home sick.

Mr. Wife used to get sick every time he went to a new country. Each had its own set of variants of Covid and other things. Until recently that was assumed to be a side effect of jet setting — though I assume it wasn’t much different travelling domestically.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-08-08 23:08

#5 Yeah Abu, almost every time I fly I come home with some sort of sinus infection. Luckily it clears up in a couple of days.

I do try to drive to most needed destinations now, unless there's a serious time constraint (or over an ocean). It may not be the cheapest way to travel, but it avoids the chaos and wierd and dodgy fellow travelers.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2024-08-08 16:02

#4 Everyone I know who has flown on a plane recently comes home sick. The ones who get tested say they had covid but the infection clears in a week or so. The ones who don't get tested say they might have had covid but the infection clears in a week or so.

Before I retired, long before covid, my company would send me to different cities from time to time. I got sick from those airplanes on a regular basis. Instead of using fuel to pump fresh air into the cabins, the airlines would recycle the old air. Gross. Now I hear they run the air through some kind of ultraviolet light to kill germs but it doesn't seem to do any good. I'm not flying anywhere these days.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-08-08 14:09

#3 Colds and influenzas spread during the winter because in the higher latitudes that’s when people huddle together inside to keep warm. In the lower latitudes people go inside during the heat of the summer so they can enjoy the air conditioning. Hence the double hump seen back when we were graphing Covid-19 infections, and why reports about a nasty version of Covid going round now should not be surprising.

As for the poor Olympic athletes, among the many horror tales about the housing Paris provided is the fact that in the heat of a Paris summer they were not provided air conditioning — so many teams brought plug-in units. I imagine there’s lots of huddling together to cool off. With, naturally enough, the sharing of infections.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-08-08 14:09

#2 As Greg Gutfeld said last night when talking about Walz's role in perpetuating the hoax, COVID was dangerous to a small percentage of elderly people and an annoyance to just about everyone else.

Posted by: EMS Artifact 2024-08-08 13:42

#1 Election Seasonal Virus

Posted by: Frank G 2024-08-08 13:24

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