COVID rising fast in California, fueled by new 'Stratus' variant tied to Omicron

[lostincalifornia]

"COVID-19 is once again climbing to troubling levels in California — a worrying trend as health officials attempt to navigate a vaccine landscape thrown into uncertainty by delays and decisions from the Trump administration.

Public health departments in Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties have reported jumps in the coronavirus concentrations detected in wastewater in recent weeks. L.A. County also has reported a small increase in patients hospitalized with COVID.

"There is a lot of COVID out there," said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UC San Francisco. "COVID is coming a little bit later than last year."

"The rate at which COVID lab tests came back positive in L.A. County is 12.6% for the week that ended Aug. 16, up from 7.6% a month earlier. In Orange County, it's 14.4%, up from 8.1%."


https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/covid-rising-fast-california-fueled-100000076.html

[niyad]

1. I am certain that this news is making krasnov and company thrilled.

[SheltieLover]

4. Maybe pootin is offering bonuses for dead Americans

[niyad]

7. Would not be surprised.

[SheltieLover]

9. Like when the pos offered bounty on dead US troops to kraznov

[niyad]

10. I remember.

[SheltieLover]

11. I knew you would.

[crimycarny]

16. Maybe Trump will get COVID again

But this time not be so lucky. I can guarantee that Trump gets vaccinated. I'm sure his bout with COVID scared the heck out of him.

Or, even better, RFK Jr. gets a severe case of COVID.

[obamanut2012]

2. We are up in Sac, and same

My wife and I had a light version of it recently, but she and I both have colleagues (young and fit ones) who have been laid out with bad coughs and a fever for a week or more. We have started to mask up everywhere except for when we are walking around town and in our private offices. I have noticed more and more people in church every week masking, too, and it really dropped off in about April.

[lostincalifornia]

3. Because there are questions if the qwacks in charge are going to allow the vaccine.

[crimycarny]

15. I'm in the Sac area too

I told my husband we might want to start wearing masks again when we go into public places. I don't understand the MAGA mindset that wearing a mask is "weak" or that it shows you are "afraid". I just don't want to feel like cr*p if I can avoid it.

During flu season, everyone is always advised to frequently wash their hands as the most common way of spreading the flu is touching surfaces with flu droplets (which are much heavier and larger than COVID droplets, thus not as easily spread via air). So is it "weak" to wash your hands too?

So stupid....

[haele]

27. San Diego, Laz just tested positive yesterday after feeling a bit sick and running a fever.

He just recovered from a three year bout of Long Covid. He still masks in public, but the grandkids just started school two weeks ago, and spent the last weekend before school in Anaheim hitting all the non-Disney amusement parks with both mom and dads families. Who knows what they picked up on their week, or might have picked up at school.
Paxlovid is a godsend, he's already just hope Covid doesn't evolve to resist it.

[Grammy23]

5. My neighbor works in a primary care doctor's office.

She put out the word that Covid is alive and thriving in NW Florida.

The Mr. And I had a nasty case last year that we acquired either on a river cruise or returning via Paris. We were sick as either of has been in a long, long time. Maybe ever. It is no joke. The Mr. Had to take extra medication (after Paxlovid) due to rattling in his chest. Luckily that kept pneumonia at bay. But we’re old. And covid is no friend of the elderly.

Pay attention. This is not a drill. 🦠💊💉🔬🦠💊

[Prairie Gates]

17. Lots of people walking into hospitals with "trouble breathing" right now

Some of them not walking out.

Definitely not a drill.

[Attilatheblond]

6. Trump in office, and AGAIN vaccine is hard for our local pharmacies to get Covid vaccine.

Biden & his team got the kinks out of vaccine distribution fast and our nation got better.

Trump back in charge with his band of insane ass kissing jerks and shots getting hard to come by again.

He REALLY hates all of us.

[BoRaGard]

8. He (r) hates himself.

Truly. He just projects it out on all of us.

I mean, if you were a draft-dodging, casino-hustling, sex criminal, felon, adulterer, chronic liar, pedo protector, and even a freaking GOP golf cheat, you would probably hate yourself, too.

[Attilatheblond]

21. And he KNOWS his parents didn't like him, let alone love him. He knows he's the BIGGEST LOSER

All the stuff he does is in hopes of feeling better. But none of it works so he keeps doing worse things. It's his drug. He gets high on if for a few minutes, then crashes and has to move on to the next exercise in hurting people.

Criminally insane. Makes Manson look like a jay walker.

[Johonny]

12. The school yeae just started so expect it

To go through the roof.

[Attilatheblond]

22. Yep. Halloween is my favorite time and we do it on a grand scale at our house

Thinking of letting it pass by without our fabulous decoration extravaganza to amuse the kids, no treats, lights out. I am not young and can't risk getting whatever we can't get vaccinated for.

[JustAnotherGen]

28. Same here

I'm immune compromised. There's no way my husband will let us do our usual *Witch House*. We didn't in 2020 either.

Yes - we are known as the Witch House

[Johonny]

36. Unfortunately I cant skip it

I'm on the wrong side of the covid age curve, but my kids will be at youth sports, trick or treating and at school.

Trump is murdering people. It's biological warfare against the poor and middle class. Meanwhile these rich fucks will all get vaccinated.

[erronis]

13. Wonder if trump and rfkjr aren't actively spreading it - giving out infected MAHA caps......

[niyad]

32. Would not be surprised.

[Tom Dyer]

14. A often times deadly disease

for which there is no cure, has no vaccine that is 100%, a president who downplayed and offered fairy dust, bleach, and horse medicine, a population that is so ignorant that dying horribly was better than admitting, oh, I don’t know, science, and it turns out it’s still killing people? And if we continue to talk about in the past tense on the NEWZ it’s all good?
And no more vaccines.

Yeah. Quite the surprise.

Have never had it.

[sheshe2]

18. Wow...

I just got a text from my 2 nieces, they just tested positive for COVID and I was with them both with the rest of my family for a wedding.

[LoisB]

26. Goodness. I hope you did not get it.

[niyad]

33. Fingers crossed you do not have it.

[Pendrench]

19. I just got over a case of COVID - as did most of my family - here in Maryland.

Luckily we're all vaccinated, so the symptoms were rather mild for all of us - sore throat, runny nose, and (mild) fatigue.

Tim

[kimbutgar]

20. I was at my doctor the other day and she was wearing a mask and told me covid is on the rise again.

She offered me the new covid vaccine which I readily took. One of my co workers just got diagnosed with covid but it didn’t last long. I haven’t thrown away my masks and still keep them in my purse and car.

[Attilatheblond]

23. On top of that, there is West Nile Virus showing up in southern AZ now

Sometimes I wonder how close to 'nothing to lose' I am getting. When the gauge cross the red line, I could become less me and a lot more openly hostile to the idiots.

[Takket]

24. Are you sure it's the new vaccine?

I had read the newest vaccine is not going to be ready until September. And even then it sounds like RFK is going to crush it . Is it out now?

[Celerity]

35. Public health experts expect the vaccines to be available in the fall, as in previous years, though an exact date is

unknown. Schaffner says a mid- to late-September launch is “entirely appropriate,” because you don’t want to get the vaccine too far ahead of the typical winter peak.

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/updated-seasonal-covid-vaccines.html

[halobeam]

37. Unclear how you got a new vaccine when its not out until September?

I've read mid to late September, and then there are reports it's going to be banned/squashed.

So much conflicting information.

[Prince99]

29. Took out family

We are in the Sacramento area as well and had it take out 3 of 4 family members about two weeks ago. No breathing issues, just cold and temp issues. We all took Paxlovid. Does the immunity still apply with these new variants? Trying to determine if I need to mask up.

[yorkster]

30. Doesn't that idiot know that we remember

how many people died because of him and his policies? No second massacre, you bastards.
They want us sick or dead so we can't fight back.

[Melon]

31. Let's not panic...Covid infections are high..but barely an increase in hospitalization and the lowest

Deaths per week was last week. All indications from the CDC is that this strain is milder than even last year. Take precautions…but don’t lose your mind on it. The CDC website has good data on it.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00

[niyad]

34. Did you forget the sarcasm thingy? The cdc is now run and cintrolled

by idiots.