"JP Weiland estimates from wastewater viral levels that we are down to about 520,000 new COVID infections each day in the United States with 1 in every 64 people currently infected. This is less than half the number of cases that we were seeing in January. Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels are down to “MODERATE” levels and hospitalizations and deaths from COVID have decreased significantly. According to Sara Anne Willette, Virginia has extremely high levels of SARS-CoV-2 in their wastewater now, followed by very high levels found in Mississippi and Delaware.
"JN.1 and its descendants are the main variants causing COVID infections at this time. New variant BA.2.87 was initially seen in South Africa and now has been found in Asia. But, Yunlong Cao’s lab showed that BA.2.87.1 can be neutralized by antibodies meaning that BA.2.87.1 will not significantly spread unless it acquires new mutations. For now, we are in a better place.
"As discussed last week, on March 1st, the CDC recommended that COVID positive people can return to work or school if they do not have a fever and their symptoms are improving. The CDC’s logic was that we should treat COVID like other respiratory infections including the flu and RSV. But, COVID is not only a respiratory disease- it is a multi-organ infection that also has many long term consequences.
"Eric Topol posted the CDC’s own data showing that 1 in 3 people with a COVID infection will still be contagious at day 5. He said, “By not strongly recommending rapid antigen tests, the CDC's new (1 March) policy is ignoring their own data!” Noha Aboelata MD added “Enough to detect is enough to infect!” If someone is COVID positive on rapid antigen test, they should isolate until they are negative or they will infect others."
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"Next Friday March 15th is Long COVID Awareness Day. The team from CureID is working with Long COVID patient groups to try to enroll 1,000 people with Long COVID on the CureID website by March 15 to answer a survey about which treatments helped and which supplements or medications were harmful to people with Long COVID. The goal is to aggregate all of the findings so that the helpful treatments can be tested in clinical trials. If you know anyone with Long COVID, please invite them to participate."
What a great idea! Somehow, I think many more than 1,000 LC patients would want to participate in that survey.
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