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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread didn’t age well. [/quote]

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The thread hasn't aged well - since aggregate US hospitalizations are basically flat/down for April 2022 vs preceding month. The prediction was a "surge" would be "hitting" the US in April. If correct, then we would have seen evidence of big US hospitalizations during April which we did not. Any questions?[/quote]

It depends on whether you care about avoiding infection or not. Cases are up in areas where the sub-variant has taken hold, which includes much of the Northeast. Hospitalizations are up too, although fortunately not to the levels we saw in January. The numbers are relatively low compared to the holiday surge.

The last time I checked though, it was April 24 so it's too early to say that there will be no increase in hospitalizations in April and May. Hospitalizations lag behind cases. If you look at New York State, and in particular, the counties in the center of the state, they were the first to start seeing rising cases, and now hospitalizations are up there.

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