With a million new COVID cases per day in the US, Democrats celebrate their "victory" over COVID at their massive indoor superspreader event with zero mitigations
With a million new COVID cases per day in the US, Democrats celebrate their "victory" over COVID at their massive indoor superspreader event with zero mitigations
Many that went to the DNC have shared on social media that they tested positive for COVID in the last few days. It's not cringe. COVID is surging higher than the last 2 summers.
COVID now isn't what COVID was during the initial outbreak. Current mutations are significantly less lethal. Between the vaccines and the fact that almost everyone has had it at least once by now, we are far more prepared to handle it. It's still something that should be taken seriously, but it's also well into the endemic phase. This is the steady state where humanity will have to coexist with COVID indefinitely, not the pandemic where talking about "super spreader events" is reasonable.
The latest strain is taking people longer to recover from than the previous strains. My co-worker who has had COVID twice before said this was the worst one he's experienced. "Felt like I got run over by a truck multiple times".
Free at-home COVID testing program restarting as officials prepare for fall, winter season
Officials said the website to order tests will come back online in September.