Using wastewater data- the only data that measures the amount of circulating COVID-19 in an era of inaccessible tests and discouraged reporting- infectious disease modeler J.P. Weiland estimates that the US has yet again crossed the million-infections-per-day mark as of August 9, with about 1 in 33 Americans currently infected with COVID-19.
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I’ve written before about how, in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, Fauci publicly declared that US COVID cases would need to fall “well below 10,000 a day” for us to get a “degree of normality,” and allow us to return to pre-pandemic life. In the nearly three years since, the US has never had a single day with under 10,000 new COVID cases per day; in fact, we have never had a single day with under 100,000 new COVID cases per day.
Not directed at you but I’m real damn tired of Twitter being used as a source for fucking anything. I don’t even care if it’s correct, sourced, verified, primary or whatever.
I agree. That people default to posting their research on Twitter is an indictment of not only contemporary journalism and academia but also of . . . pretty much everything else. I hate it, and I hate it even more when months later, I’m trying to figure out where I read something and it turns out to have been a Twitter screenshot or a dead link.