BA.2 surge hitting US in April/May

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Anonymous wrote:394 new cases in Virginia today. What a terrifying surge.

There's alway a jump on Mondays because those include numbers from over the weekend. But by all means, continue to live in terror.

Lmao you can’t read sarcasm? 394 is nothing. I’m mocking the “ba.2 surge” hype

My children’s school (private) has tracked COVID cases all year. Two weeks ago there had been 88 cases in the whole school of around 1000 pupils and 350 faculty/staff). 44 of those cases had been in the prior 2 weeks. Since then there have been another 67 cases.

WoooOoooOoooWwww

Yeah. It’s pretty insane. They stopped mandatory masking at the beginning of that surge but many many people went back to masks within a week. It’s scary!

Not really. Actually, not at all...

Np - yes, large surges of a dangerous disease is of course scary.

It's really not. I sincerely mean that. I'm boosted and have only worn a mask a couple times (planes) in the past year.

Good for you - you’ve been lucky! My booster niece just got out of the hospital after a nasty 2+ battle with COVID and COVID pneumonia. And she’s 14 and a star athlete in excellent shape before getting sick. A dramatic rise in COVID cases is not just nbd for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:394 new cases in Virginia today. What a terrifying surge.

There's alway a jump on Mondays because those include numbers from over the weekend. But by all means, continue to live in terror.

Lmao you can’t read sarcasm? 394 is nothing. I’m mocking the “ba.2 surge” hype

My children’s school (private) has tracked COVID cases all year. Two weeks ago there had been 88 cases in the whole school of around 1000 pupils and 350 faculty/staff). 44 of those cases had been in the prior 2 weeks. Since then there have been another 67 cases.

WoooOoooOoooWwww

Yeah. It’s pretty insane. They stopped mandatory masking at the beginning of that surge but many many people went back to masks within a week. It’s scary!

Not really. Actually, not at all...

Np - yes, large surges of a dangerous disease is of course scary.

It's really not. I sincerely mean that. I'm boosted and have only worn a mask a couple times (planes) in the past year.

Good for you - you’ve been lucky! My booster niece just got out of the hospital after a nasty 2+ battle with COVID and COVID pneumonia. And she’s 14 and a star athlete in excellent shape before getting sick. A dramatic rise in COVID cases is not just nbd for everyone.

The odds didn’t favor her. They favor most who are boosted, though.

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Anonymous wrote:So when is this thing going to hit? Late May?

It's already hitting. Our school has had a sharp uptick in cases over the last 2-3 weeks. I tested positive today despite being careful and triple vaxed. BA.2 is extremely contagious.

Sorry about that. Could you share your symptoms?

Started with a scratchy throat yesterday (tested negative), otherwise felt ok. Woke up this morning with a scratchier/hoarse throat and a little upper respiratory congestion, plus some heavy phlegm feeling in my upper chest just below throat. Head feels slightly “loopy” like I’ve had a drink, but otherwise ok. Stomach is a little sensitive and I’ve had several less than solid bms.

Waiting on pcr results as this is how everyone in my household has felt for two days

I hope it resolves quickly for you. The heavy phlegm just below the throat is how covid felt for me in late December. I thought it was odd.

Thanks. How long did it last for you? Timing absolutely sucks for us, as my kids spring break is next week, but nothing I can do at this point other than isolate and hope the rest of the family doesn’t get sick.

Not long. I felt bad for maybe 2 days but just needed more sleep after that. Both my kids got it too, but each had a sore throat for maybe half a day and like me needed more sleep. My husband got it first and stayed sicker longer, maybe 8 days of coughing and congestion.

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Anonymous wrote:394 new cases in Virginia today. What a terrifying surge.

There's alway a jump on Mondays because those include numbers from over the weekend. But by all means, continue to live in terror.

Lmao you can’t read sarcasm? 394 is nothing. I’m mocking the “ba.2 surge” hype

My children’s school (private) has tracked COVID cases all year. Two weeks ago there had been 88 cases in the whole school of around 1000 pupils and 350 faculty/staff). 44 of those cases had been in the prior 2 weeks. Since then there have been another 67 cases.

What state is this? My state doesn’t have a single county reporting pediatric Covid numbers that high. For the whole county.

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Anonymous wrote:394 new cases in Virginia today. What a terrifying surge.

There's alway a jump on Mondays because those include numbers from over the weekend. But by all means, continue to live in terror.

Lmao you can’t read sarcasm? 394 is nothing. I’m mocking the “ba.2 surge” hype

My children’s school (private) has tracked COVID cases all year. Two weeks ago there had been 88 cases in the whole school of around 1000 pupils and 350 faculty/staff). 44 of those cases had been in the prior 2 weeks. Since then there have been another 67 cases.

What state is this? My state doesn’t have a single county reporting pediatric Covid numbers that high. For the whole county.

I hardly doubt that.

Here is Maryland: https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/school-resources

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Anonymous wrote:394 new cases in Virginia today. What a terrifying surge.

There's alway a jump on Mondays because those include numbers from over the weekend. But by all means, continue to live in terror.

Lmao you can’t read sarcasm? 394 is nothing. I’m mocking the “ba.2 surge” hype

My children’s school (private) has tracked COVID cases all year. Two weeks ago there had been 88 cases in the whole school of around 1000 pupils and 350 faculty/staff). 44 of those cases had been in the prior 2 weeks. Since then there have been another 67 cases.

What state is this? My state doesn’t have a single county reporting pediatric Covid numbers that high. For the whole county.

New York. Also, these are mostly at home tests, which are vastly underreported in most government counts because people don’t report them. So yeah, it’s definitely out there.

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Anonymous wrote:394 new cases in Virginia today. What a terrifying surge.

There's alway a jump on Mondays because those include numbers from over the weekend. But by all means, continue to live in terror.

Lmao you can’t read sarcasm? 394 is nothing. I’m mocking the “ba.2 surge” hype

My children’s school (private) has tracked COVID cases all year. Two weeks ago there had been 88 cases in the whole school of around 1000 pupils and 350 faculty/staff). 44 of those cases had been in the prior 2 weeks. Since then there have been another 67 cases.

What state is this? My state doesn’t have a single county reporting pediatric Covid numbers that high. For the whole county.

New York. Also, these are mostly at home tests, which are vastly underreported in most government counts because people don’t report them. So yeah, it’s definitely out there.

I hardly doubt NY doesn't have any schools reporting high numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:394 new cases in Virginia today. What a terrifying surge.

There's alway a jump on Mondays because those include numbers from over the weekend. But by all means, continue to live in terror.

Lmao you can’t read sarcasm? 394 is nothing. I’m mocking the “ba.2 surge” hype

My children’s school (private) has tracked COVID cases all year. Two weeks ago there had been 88 cases in the whole school of around 1000 pupils and 350 faculty/staff). 44 of those cases had been in the prior 2 weeks. Since then there have been another 67 cases.

What state is this? My state doesn’t have a single county reporting pediatric Covid numbers that high. For the whole county.

New York. Also, these are mostly at home tests, which are vastly underreported in most government counts because people don’t report them. So yeah, it’s definitely out there.

I hardly doubt NY doesn't have any schools reporting high numbers.

Well, *most* private schools here were on a 2-week break for those weeks, so they weren’t reporting then, and most schools (including all public schools) have completely done away with any sort of school-organized testing so there’s a lot less data coming in. Our school (one of the few privates that takes a February and then an April break) dropped masks on March 7 like most others (end of the state mandate), and saw cases start to tick up the week after. We got exposure notices for our kids (because they were still doing them) on a daily basis so we were testing them almost daily, as per the school’s suggested guidelines to test on the day after exposure is known and 3-4 days later, but since we got notices nearly every day I just tested them daily. Finally after a couple of weeks of that they switched to an anonymous dashboard showing the number of cases in each grade/among staff. The first 3 days of this there were over 20 cases in the school. I checked the private school a few blocks away from ours on the state COVID dashboard and because of their spring break they are still reporting 0 new cases in the last 2 weeks.

In addition to all the kids/staff at our school I know of more parents or other adult friends who have had COVID in the past month than any other time during the pandemic - even more than December/January with omicron, and I knew of quite a few then.

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Yeah NY has ticked back up to yellow. DC it’s coming.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah NY has ticked back up to yellow. DC it’s coming.

We were in NYC this past weekend for a show.

Masks were few and far between except in the actual theater. New York has moved on. Noone asked us for our covid cards anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah NY has ticked back up to yellow. DC it’s coming.

Yes, we should all be following Eric Ding on Twitter. I thought it would be here right after Valentine's Day, but it really has taken its time. If elderly people and young children get as sick here as they have in England, it will be a mess, and I am very curious to see if the CDC will even react - or just keep writing off deaths like they are the flu. They are so slow, so reactive, so ineffective. Their new map is a joke.

My family lives in DC but we all got Omicron in NY over the holidays, so I'm not so worried about us right now. I'm just sad that our nations is so slow to react.

I am not really wearing a mask myself for the last two weeks, so I'm no saint. But I expect better from the CDC. And Lena Wan should be banned from every news network - her mask section idea for airplanes is the craziest thing I've heard since Trump was in office.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah NY has ticked back up to yellow. DC it’s coming.

We were in NYC this past weekend for a show.

Masks were few and far between except in the actual theater. New York has moved on. Noone asked us for our covid cards anywhere.

I'm the PP. We were there too. New Yorkers will mask back up as soon as they are told. Most wealthy New Yorkers have moved out of the city to second homes, and the city is lagging behind EVERY other city in getting back in in-person work. You weren't seeing the real New York.

But no one will do anything until they are OFFICIALLY told there is a threat. So that's up to Biden, Fauci, and Eric Adams. (I can't even remember the name of the new temporary governor since she's so awful.)

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Anonymous wrote:394 new cases in Virginia today. What a terrifying surge.

There's alway a jump on Mondays because those include numbers from over the weekend. But by all means, continue to live in terror.

Lmao you can’t read sarcasm? 394 is nothing. I’m mocking the “ba.2 surge” hype

My children’s school (private) has tracked COVID cases all year. Two weeks ago there had been 88 cases in the whole school of around 1000 pupils and 350 faculty/staff). 44 of those cases had been in the prior 2 weeks. Since then there have been another 67 cases.

WoooOoooOoooWwww

Yeah. It’s pretty insane. They stopped mandatory masking at the beginning of that surge but many many people went back to masks within a week. It’s scary!

Not really. Actually, not at all...

Np - yes, large surges of a dangerous disease is of course scary.

There isn’t a large surge. Numbers are LOW. Ba.2 is a cold for most people.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah NY has ticked back up to yellow. DC it’s coming.

Yes, we should all be following Eric Ding on Twitter. I thought it would be here right after Valentine's Day, but it really has taken its time. If elderly people and young children get as sick here as they have in England, it will be a mess, and I am very curious to see if the CDC will even react - or just keep writing off deaths like they are the flu. They are so slow, so reactive, so ineffective. Their new map is a joke.

My family lives in DC but we all got Omicron in NY over the holidays, so I'm not so worried about us right now. I'm just sad that our nations is so slow to react.

I am not really wearing a mask myself for the last two weeks, so I'm no saint. But I expect better from the CDC. And Lena Wan should be banned from every news network - her mask section idea for airplanes is the craziest thing I've heard since Trump was in office.

Curious what you mean by "not so worried about us." If you're not worried about severe covid, sure, but if you're not worried about getting it again good luck. We had it over the holidays and my too-young to be vaccinated kid just got it again.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah NY has ticked back up to yellow. DC it’s coming.

We were in NYC this past weekend for a show.

Masks were few and far between except in the actual theater. New York has moved on. Noone asked us for our covid cards anywhere.

New York is not yellow, it’s green. There’s a couple counties in the west that are yellow and even red, but the state as a whole and NYC are still green.