#ba2

Thanks to the hard work of tens of thousands of scientists, researchers, and health care workers, COVID is finally "just the flu", though it is still a very infectious flu that got a large fraction

US cases down 87% from the peak. (The lag from infection to test to report to 7 day moving average means we're likely down 95+% on infections.) Hospital admissions down 65%, they'll continue to drop as

Still at low levels in the US, but should eventually become dominant in the coming months. It appears to have a growth advantage over BA.1. This might be due to increased transmissibility or a shorter

Omicron is running out of unvaxxed people without previous infections. The rate will continue to fall quickly, and we'll never see COVID-19 death rates this high again. More than 90% of the deaths this

Interesting. It may not go exactly the same in the US due to the differences in type of population immunity, but this is a good look at what the weeks ahead may look like here. BA.1.1 and BA.1 are the

It hurts my brain to hold these two facts in my head at the same time. (1) Being vaxxed and boosted decreases your odds of death from COVID by 99%. (2) US COVID deaths are now running 2/3 as high as the