Covid variant Eris causes summer surge as mask mandate returns spark debate

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• frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I must live in a bubble because I have not known anyone in at least a year to come down with COVID.

  I can’t even imagine a mask mandate.

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  • Lord_Logjam@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most people won’t be testing themselves anymore. I have a few tests left over that I got from work but the vast majority of people will just put symptoms down to a cold and will likely only test if they end up going to hospital.

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    • C4d@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is what I was going to say - you won’t find what you don’t test for, and these days next to no one outside specialist healthcare settings will be testing.

      Best we can hope for these days is that sewage monitoring is still in place.

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  • CurrentBias@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You might live in a bubble, because covid is everywhere

    Rapid tests that rely on nasal swabs are prone to false negatives, so a lot of people get mild symptoms like sniffles or an itchy throat, test negative, and then assume they don't have covid when they actually might

    Mild symptoms don't mean mild disease, either -- there are people who never show symptoms and still end up with vascular damage. It's never a good idea to only judge a virus by its acute symptoms

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