anecdotally, including on social media sites, people are expressing shock at how sick they’ve become from the latest subvariants, which have been collectively nicknamed FLiRT.
Cases have been rising nationally and locally for about two months, driven by FLiRT variants.
COVID-19 has peaks in the winter and also at other times of the year, including the summer, driven by new variants and decreasing immunity from previous infections and vaccinations.
Coronavirus infections are likely growing in 44 states and territories as of June 25, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"All masks and respirators significantly reduced exhaled viral load, without fit tests or training. A duckbill N95 reduced exhaled viral load by 98% (95% CI: 97%–99%), and significantly outperformed a KN95 (p < 0.001) as well as cloth and surgical masks. Cloth masks outperformed a surgical mask (p = 0.027) and the tested KN95 (p = 0.014)."
There are still health risks and mask bans are threatening the most vulnerable
During the peak of the pandemic the Pentagon ran anti-vax propaganda targeting the Philippines in order to undermine China. However, because the internet is global, it spread.
"More than 44,000 COVID deaths have been reported since October; by contrast, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly flu surveillance report estimates 24,000 flu deaths during the same time."
"Under questioning by a congressional subcommittee, top officials from the National Institutes of Health, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, acknowledged that some key parts of the public health guidance their agencies promoted during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic were not backed up by solid science. What’s more, inconvenient information was kept from the public — suppressed, denied or disparaged as crackpot nonsense."
It will probably be many years before the world has conclusive answers about whether the coronavirus is complicit in the surge of cancer cases, but Patel and other concerned scientists are calling on the U.S. government to make this question a priority knowing it could affect treatment and management of millions of cancer patients for decades to come.