https://xcancel.com/michael_hoerger/status/1993183181932310977
Wastewater-derived estimates suggest that 74 million people in the U.S. got infected during the summer wave.
That's 21.6% of the population, about 1 in 5 people. These infections are anticipated to translate into 3.7-14.7 million long-term conditions. #LongCOVID
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Graph titled "SARS-CoV-2 New Daily Infections, Wastewater-Derived Estimates (U.S.)" which has days on the X-axis (with ticks for the first of each month for July through November 2025) and infections on the Y-axis. The graph highlights a peak of 1.4 million infections/day in early September. Additionally, it shows that 60 million infections occurred in the two-month span from early August to early October, and 75 million infections occurred in the three-month span from mid-July to mid-October. The graph is attributed to Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA (@michael_hoerger
) and links to pmc19.com/data
Many things begin to make sense.
Jokes aside, this is probably very bad for American society. A whole bunch of people with brain damage that makes it harder for them to understand things and more prone to frustration, with absolutely no support system or even acknowledgment that the disability exists. Just people who will be angry and frustrated all the time now, not even realizing why that is or that anything changed in themselves. What a nightmare.