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Those still shielding from Covid have far less trust in government, research finds
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The biobot numbers have been weird - Northeast region is way up, but the south and west are below where they were this summer. EG.5 and HV.1 are the dominant strains, which is strange given that the CDC reports that JN.1 currently accounts for almost a third of cases.
It's very upsetting that it's so hard to get meaningful information now. : (
It's really unnerving to have access to so much information but then feel completely in the dark. BioBot doesn't have that many sampling locations and there's obviously a lot of variability even within a region, so even our best look is pretty imperfect. This sort of thing should be inexcusable in an era of cheap data.
Anecdotally: I got my first covid infection as part of that spike, despite getting the latest booster a month prior and being fully vaxed. I did manage to avoid giving it to my wife, though, so based on my sample size (n=2) the new variant(s) driving it are indeed immune-invading, but don't seem to be more obscenely contagious than normal for covid.
(I unironically blame dialing back my cannabis use for the infection)
The northeast has had a couple weeks lead on the south for a while now. Speaking as someone that's been religiously watching the numbers here in Florida. With so many competing variants out there our immunity among wide swaths of the population is wildly out of sync and causing all sorts of lags and unexpected spikes. I feel ya on being in the dark. Florida has 67 counties; we were monitoring 9, got a tenth, and we're now down to getting data from only 4.
And the super fun part is, if you look at the missing data for some of our counties it seems like they saw a spike and decided to stop sending samples in response.
*sigh*