New COVID-19 cases continue to drop in the U.S. as the country slowly comes down from its Omicron wave. This week, the country reported a total of 850,000 new cases, according to the CDC; it’s the first week under one million new cases have been reported since early December, though we are still seeing over 100,000 new cases a day.
Read MoreThis past week, my girlfriend and I had a very unseasonal beach vacation in Provincetown, Massachusetts. I was glad to see the town currently has a mask mandate and requires vaccination for indoor dining.
Read MoreSources and updates for the week of February 13 include a potential change to federal hospitalization data and long-term heart health after COVID-19.
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Omicron updates for the week of February 13 include BA.2 estimates, vaccine effectiveness from a booster shot, COVID-19 in deer, and more.
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In this post, I’m answering reader questions about how individuals can impact COVID-19 policies. Such questions feel particularly pertinent this week, as leaders of several states loosen up on mask mandates and other COVID-19 safety measures.
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COVID-19 cases continue to decline across the U.S. as the country comes out of its Omicron surge. Nationwide, the U.S. reported an average of 215,000 new cases a day last week—a drop of about 75% from the peak of the Omicron surge, when nearly 800,000 new cases were reported each day.
Read MoreOn February 16, Iowa’s two COVID-19 dashboards—one dedicated to vaccination data, and one for other major metrics—will be decommissioned. The end of these dashboards follows the end of Iowa’s public health emergency declaration, on February 15.
Read MoreFeatured sources for the week of February 6 include vaccination coverage among dialysis patients and in the LGBTQ+ community, and the effectiveness of masking for children.
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Omicron updates this week include BA.2’s transmissibility, the importance of vaccination to protect against severe symptoms, and the U.S.’s high death toll.
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This week, the CDC added wastewater tracking to its COVID-19 data dashboard. Wastewater has been an important COVID-tracking tool throughout the pandemic, but it gained more public interest in recent months as Omicron’s rapid spread showed the utility of this early warning system. While the CDC’s new wastewater tracker offers a decent picture of national COVID-19 trends, it’s basically useless for local data in the majority of states.
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