(By the way, when she discusses the FLiRT mutation, I couldn't help but remember the frightening-sounding "eek" mutation, the nickname for the E384K mutation, from 2020 or 2021. Nothing came of that one, fortunately, except the name I never forgot! Hopefully the FLiRT mutation will turn out the same way.)
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"This week, we are still at “LOW” virus levels of SARS-2 in wastewater at a national level. New Jersey and Utah continue to show “Substantial” virus wastewater levels per Sara Anne Willette and the CDC. Hospitalizations, Emergency Department visits and deaths from COVID continue to decline and are almost to the nadir that we saw last June. Approximately 1 in every 124 people is infected with COVID now in the United States and the calculated cases continue to decline per JP Weiland.
"JN.1 continues to be the variant causing most cases now. Raj Rajnarayanan and others note that a new descendant, JN.1 + FLiRT mutation (F456L + R346T) + T572I mutation has a significant growth advantage and could cause the next wave of infection. Therefore, they suggest that this subvariant be used to make the next vaccine booster. The FLiRT mutation (F456L + R346T) combination has been seen in other variants that were able to grow significantly.
"A new study shows that the SARS-CoV-2 virus appears to pick up some of its mutations from bacteria living in the microbiome of our gut and lungs. The recombination of bacterial mRNAs and viral mRNA can add bacterial mutations to the virus.
Acute COVID infections
"The number of people hospitalized for COVID infections in England in 2023 was greater than the number of people hospitalized for the flu in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 combined. There were more people hospitalized in 2023 alone for COVID than for the last 8 years for the flu. COVID is not the Flu."
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