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If the photos and videos from VMX are any indication, mask-free animal health professionals may fall into the group of Americans who are “collectively forgetting” or hopefully, have stayed current with boosters.
Moving into the fourth year, Covid-19 is again spreading across America. It is being driven by the recent holidays, fewer precautions and the continuing evolution of Omicron subvariants of the virus. Experts say official case counts have been slower to rise, because of the prevalence of at-home tests and a general reluctance to test at all.
. . . it’s riskier now than it’s ever been in terms of transmissibility.” – Neil J. Sehgal, PhD, MPH
Source: The Guardian, January 15, 2023. Link. This is one of the greatest surges of Covid cases in the entire pandemic, according to wastewater analyses of the virus. It’s much lower than the peak in January 2022, but similar to the summer 2022 surge, which was the second biggest.
Of the tests that are reported, however, positivity rates have been very high, with about one in six tests (16%) turning positive.”