The call really is coming from inside the house. 🤦♀️
"CDC meeting, intended to mark covid progress, sees virus cases of its own
The staff dedicated to investigating disease outbreaks for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received a reminder this week of the pandemic’s persistence: confirmed covid cases at their own conference.
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The CDC’s conference of epidemic intelligence service officers — the disease detectives deployed to identify and fight outbreaks — was held at a hotel in Atlanta between Monday and Thursday; officials said it drew about 2,000 people. Among the presentations were more than a dozen sessions on the lessons from fighting covid, including “How Far We Have Come: A COVID-19 Surveillance System Evaluation,” a session that discussed improvements on tracking the virus."
Let's rename it the SMH.
Meanwhile...
"CDC set to stop tracking community levels for Covid-19
As the nation’s public health emergency expires on May 11, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop reporting its color-coded Covid-19 Community Levels as a way to track the spread of the infection.
Instead, the CDC will keep tabs on Covid-19 largely by tracking hospitalizations in some areas, according to a source familiar with the agency’s plans.
This is much the same way the agency tracks other respiratory infections, such as the flu.
Hospitalizations are a lagging indicator: it generally takes a person a week to 10 days to be hospitalized with a Covid-19 infection. So the switch may mean that the nation is losing its capacity for the earliest warning of an uptick in spread."
🔗: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/28/health/cdc-covid-community-levels
@NatalieDavis Changes in sunshine duration can be used as a proxy measure of SARS-COV2 susceptibility.
