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It seems like everyone has COVID. Why this wave may be worse than official data suggests
abc7chicago ^ | 09/05/2023 | Deidre McPhillips

Posted on 09/06/2023 5:29:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

COVID-19 certainly didn't take a vacation this summer. Virus levels in the US have been on the rise for weeks, but it's hard to know exactly how widely it's spreading.

Federal data suggests that the current increases have stayed far below earlier peaks and notable surges. But judging by word of mouth among family, friends and coworkers, it can seem like everyone knows someone who's sick with COVID-19 right now.

"We have several folks down with COVID, unfortunately," one health-focused nonprofit told CNN when seeking comment for this story.

Rates of severe disease may be staying at relatively low levels, but experts agree that there are probably more infections than the current surveillance systems can capture.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; data; suggests; wave
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To: mikelets456

Three people in my family have isolated with Covid in the last couple of weeks, it is spreading rapidly, which is bad part, the good part is it’s a simple cold, none of the people have been really sick and needed to be hospitalized.

The scare tactics are not that Covid is out there and spreading, it’s never going to be eliminated, the scare tactic is the media isn’t reporting about people getting hospitalize which based on what I’ve heard is extremely low.

If people were dying to big numbers that would be the headline in every newscast 24/7, since it’s not being reported, I believe it’s not happening.

Time to break out my supply of Ivermectin.


21 posted on 09/06/2023 5:43:09 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nobody has “covid”.


22 posted on 09/06/2023 5:44:02 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: iontheball
The fear mongering is just beginning.

This. Once we hit what simply used to be called "cold and flu season" in the fall and winter it will be turned into a "COVID apocalypse" which will require masking, more vaccines, lockdowns, etc. Over something which now resembles the common cold. It's so clear this has nothing to do with "public health".
23 posted on 09/06/2023 5:45:30 AM PDT by rockvillem
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Everyone has COVID but nobody has a cold or flu. No, that doesn’t compute.

Pre-election scam. Bring out the universal mailed ballots and the mules to deliver them. Brandon needs another term to complete the destruction of America.


24 posted on 09/06/2023 5:48:32 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

[[”We have several folks down with COVID, unfortunately,”]]

Yeah and how many have died specifically from covid?


25 posted on 09/06/2023 5:50:02 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I do not have the China virus this time nor did I have it the 1st time and never wore a mask and had 6 radiation treatments during the height of the 1st time..


26 posted on 09/06/2023 5:52:21 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: dfwgator

Actually,I just had a cold or flu and took a home test because we were having family over for a few days, and it didn’t test positive for covid. I have no idea what it was, but it was plenty survivable of course.


27 posted on 09/06/2023 5:52:30 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have covid, my wife covid, her sisters friends boyfriends mother, yep covid.

Seriously, we did just get off of covid it seemed worse than the other times we had it.

Neither one of us have ever had a clot shot.

PAXLOVID started working in 24 hrs


28 posted on 09/06/2023 5:52:59 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News")
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To: Bob434

Meant o add... it was plenty survivable just like the 2 covid cases I did have during covid.


29 posted on 09/06/2023 5:53:13 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a virus, like the flu virus. It never goes away. People need to learn to live with it and go about their lives.


30 posted on 09/06/2023 5:53:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Arlis

I just read a CDC report...it’s including ALL flu types with the Covid stats.


31 posted on 09/06/2023 5:54:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: VastRWCon
PAXLOVID started working in 24 hrs

A friend got it a few weeks back, said the same thing.

32 posted on 09/06/2023 5:55:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Yo-Yo

It’s Coronavirus FJB24.

**************

Or BS24.7


33 posted on 09/06/2023 5:56:07 AM PDT by Qiviut (To the living, we owe respect. To the dead, we owe the truth (Voltaire) $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just replace the word COVID with the term “common cold”. And you will have the right perspective.


34 posted on 09/06/2023 5:56:37 AM PDT by poinq
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Really, ‘Deidre’? I don’t know anyone with COVID.


35 posted on 09/06/2023 5:57:05 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

1) If Covid is NOT a LIE why was the Fraudulent PCR test used?
2) If Covid is NOT a LIE than why can’t Doctors practice medicine?
3) If Covid is NOT a LIE than why is our Southern Border wide open?
4) If Covid is NOT a LIE than why aren’t masks treated like a bio hazard?


36 posted on 09/06/2023 5:58:33 AM PDT by afchief
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To: ChicagoConservative27
If everyone stopped getting the bogus "tests", "COVID" would cease to exist.

You don't want to get "COVID"? Then stop taking the damned tests, you hypochondriacs.

37 posted on 09/06/2023 5:59:56 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Cases” cases, cases......

They’re sounding just like the Russia! Russia! Russia! leftists back when they worked overtime to oust President Trump.

Soooooo many ‘new’ ‘cases.’ Riddle me this. Where did all these hospitals, etc. get the TESTS to diagnose this new scandemic rise? They don’t even have the vaxxines out for them yet?

They can take their flu-diagnosed-as-ooga-booga-new-Covid-strain BS and stick it up their keesters.


38 posted on 09/06/2023 6:00:56 AM PDT by Gaffer ( )
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To: newfreep

Sums it up nicely. ;-)


39 posted on 09/06/2023 6:01:29 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m a little sniffly this morning - should I get a Covid test?


40 posted on 09/06/2023 6:04:02 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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