The WHO announced this Thursday that the next Covid-19 booster should be targeted to the Omicron variant that is currently circulating, namely the XBB.1.5 lineage. What we have now: a bivalent booster that leads to immunity against the original Wuhan strain and an earlier version of Omicron.
As the PHE is over and the new method of reporting Covid deaths per CDC guidelines has caused a rapid lowering of the count and will result in delays, the public has really no data to follow. Personally, I follow wastewater via https://biobot.io/data/
My daughter's family all got Covid the day before the PHE expired and when one granddaughter was still testing positive, her teacher told her to drop the mask. Mitigation is so over.
We have to assess our risk with no real data.
Our department of health does do modeling and things look good for the population right now, they expect increases in the fall. In time for the booster, for those who want/need it.
I got a booster shot in April because I'm taking Prednisone for an autoimmune condition and therefore may be at higher risk. Since I'm 62, I didn't quite qualify for that on age alone.
As the PHE is over and the new method of reporting Covid deaths per CDC guidelines has caused a rapid lowering of the count and will result in delays, the public has really no data to follow. Personally, I follow wastewater via https://biobot.io/data/
My daughter's family all got Covid the day before the PHE expired and when one granddaughter was still testing positive, her teacher told her to drop the mask. Mitigation is so over.
We have to assess our risk with no real data.
Our department of health does do modeling and things look good for the population right now, they expect increases in the fall. In time for the booster, for those who want/need it.
Thank you, as always, for your science based digests and insights
As always you keep us well informed and explain it for non medical/science peeps. Thank you -
I got a booster shot in April because I'm taking Prednisone for an autoimmune condition and therefore may be at higher risk. Since I'm 62, I didn't quite qualify for that on age alone.