
Following the trends of the last few weeks, national Covid-19 metrics continue to decrease across the board. Current lulls in disease spread still indicate thousands of people are getting infected daily, though, when compared to the true low points reported in earlier years when mass Covid-19 precautions were still common.

Covid-19 metrics continue to slowly trend down as the end of this past winter’s surge recedes into a lower-risk spring, with reports from wastewater suggesting that the decline in transmission is leveling off. However, these low points come with a lot more virus spread than they used to in the early years of the pandemic,…

Alec Finlay is a Scottish poet and artist whose work crosses over a range of media and forms. He’s lived with Long Covid since March 2020, and recently completed the memorial in Pollok County Park, called I remember: Scotland’s Covid Memorial. This collective memorial of the COVID-19 pandemic, permanently installed in the public park, is…

All national Covid-19 and respiratory illness metrics suggest that disease spread continues to trend down across the U.S., following the same pattern we’ve observed over the last month. However, wastewater data suggest that SARS-CoV-2 transmission may be heading for a plateau as the virus continues to evolve.

Downward Covid-19 trends continue across the major national data sources, as the U.S. keeps inching toward a lower-risk spring and summer. Flu and other respiratory viruses are trending down, too, though there are still a lot of pathogens going around.

Most national Covid-19 metrics point to continued slow declines in disease spread across the U.S. While the country is inching toward a lower-risk spring, levels of SARS-CoV-2 and other common viruses are still high in some places, particularly in the South and Midwest.

On Friday, March 15, 2024 people with Long Covid and their allies gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. for the Long Covid D.C. (LCDC) march to commemorate Long Covid Awareness Day.

To supply plentiful, free masks to anyone who requests them, mask bloc members track down large quantities of quality masks being sold cheaply or offered for free. In this way, Covid-19 safety groups and mask blocs essentially function as narrow supply chains in specific regions, with bloc members focusing on distribution as well as acquisition.…

Continuing the tentatively good news from last week, all major Covid-19 metrics are trending toward declining disease spread. But there’s still a lot of this virus going around; it will be several more weeks before SARS-CoV-2 levels may actually be called low, especially in South and Midwest states that had late-winter peaks.

After a February of plateaus in Covid-19 spread, all major metrics are now pointing once again to a decline in transmission. A lower-risk spring is on the horizon in the coming weeks. Right now, though, viral levels remain high across the U.S., and the CDC’s recent change to its isolation guidance won’t help.
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