Posted on 09/01/2025 10:22:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just reported a noticeable increase in COVID test positivity rates across the United States in data posted Friday, Aug. 29. The latest numbers arrive just days before Labor Day weekend, a peak period for travel and gatherings.
Test positivity climbed to 11.2 percent for the week ending Saturday, Aug. 23, up from 10.2 percent the previous week, according to updated CDC figures. Nearly half the country now faces a test positivity rate of at least 10 percent.
Emergency room visits for COVID also rose slightly, with 1.5 percent of visits resulting in a diagnosis for the virus, up from 1.3 percent the week before.
Hospitalization rates are rising as well. For the week ending Saturday, Aug. 9, the CDC recorded a rate of 1.7 per 100,000 people, compared to 1.3 just seven days earlier.
Deaths linked to COVID-19 remain steady at 0.5 percent of all US fatalities for the week ending Aug. 23.
The agency attributes the surge in part to the spread of the Stratus variant and notes that internal challenges and a new vaccine policy may also play a role.
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Riiiiiight.
And what about the flu rate, which during the epidemic was basically non-existent?
Stratus variant eh? I’ve lost track of how many since the original.
Watching the institutions of government circle the drain on their own absurdities is a necessary but painful experience.
"Glub, glub, you lanyard fu@#%ers. We can't flush enough.
Just in time for next year’s universal mailed ballots and the resulting election shenanigans.
The Stratus variant. Cool name. I’d like to send some of these virus hoaxers into the stratosphere.
I don’t believe polls, most news, politicians, lawyers, doctors (new add), government agencies, democrats, educators, many scientists, relatives, renovators, contractors and several others.
I do believe in God, the salvation brought only through Jesus, that we are living in the end times... That I am a sinner in desperate need of a savior and that time is very short indeed.
Teenage Grandson just got it. Two days of fever and a snotty nose, now he is back to eating us out of house and home.
Same bogus PCR tests (fittingly for a bogus, pandemic virus), I presume.
Yep, the Fauci followers at CDC never will.
Amazing how many false positives you can manufacture if you crank the PCR cycles up high enough.
Are these the same tests that claimed a piece of fruit had covid?
Can we start calling it the flu again yet?
What percent of these cases are jabbed (crushed immune systems)?
Geez. No end to Covid? If we had pursued a natural immunity course of action in the beginning, would we still be getting Covid?
Is there some aspect of Covid’s bioengineered status that makes it live on forever?
No numbers....no ages....no localities...
Oh, the horror of “COVID”! LOL
Worst cold I had was when I was 18, it was a summer cold. Every time I sneezed tons of mucous came out, it could have been allergies, who knows, but I got over it.
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