COVID is back, says French PM

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29. "How do you account for these unknowable figures?"

At this point, you are forced to rely on trend lines and what probably would be (and generally are) reported for the more severe outcomes - the hospitalizations and deaths. With a triple set of viruses circulating, those admitted to hospitals would likely be tested for all 3 (and that would capture the COVID-19 stats). IOW, that ends up becoming the "signal" that can be detected above the positive cases "noise".

PA is still updating but does it once a week and Philly is doing some kind of data update every other week, but it's like a scavenger hunt to find the data.

I expect that the incidences of long covid are going to primarily come from researchers until more in the medical community get a better handle on it enough to prompt the public health agencies to develop something to track it. This would also require some back-data gathering to the beginning of the pandemic to get a fuller picture of the common long-term maladies as some eventually resolve, and others like loss of taste/smell, have lead to various therapies designed to help people regain those senses.