Covid ran thru our office of 50 in 2 weeks. Took down 14 people and nobody else has popped positive for 5 days. No masks worn in the office ever and everybody was fine.

I think we are still on the upswing for most of Texas at least:

COVID-19 - Cases (arcgis.com)

Click on the Trends tab on that dashboard.

It is rolling through my oldest daughter's school right now (7th/8th grade). Her entire group of friends tested positive 8+ I'm baffled as to how she is negative. Car rides, sleepovers, indoor soccer, etc. with all or most of these girls.

We're in Round Rock ISD.

As far as I know all double vaxxed including her.

Conversely everyone in my younger daughters 5th grade class had it roll through last week and week before.


Nobody super sick from it. Worst symptom I've heard of in the group is one of the 7th graders spend a day puking like she had the stomach flu.

Fevers 100-102 range, headache, sinus stuff, sore throat the usual. Most folks I know are testing only with symptoms.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in looking at the graphs (trends), they both appear to be dropping. Peaked and now dropping. Raw and 7 day averages. I couldn't zoom in enough on "fatalities" to see, but the other two looked consistent with each other.

oldag941 said:

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but in looking at the graphs (trends), they both appear to be dropping. Peaked and now dropping. Raw and 7 day averages. I couldn't zoom in enough on "fatalities" to see, but the other two looked consistent with each other.

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New confirmed cases is still trending up while probable cases is starting to drop-- so hopefully within 2-3 weeks we will largely be through it.

I see that new confirmed cases peaked on 12 Jan and the 7 day average seems to have peaked on 17 Jan. Both receding. What am I missing? I may be looking at the wrong graph.

I can say anecdotally that our hospitalized cases seem less serious. Very few codes. Population trending older compared to Delta. A lot of people with significant comorbidities.

I don't think these charts are going to be accurate, several parents I know are just keeping their kids home for a day or two if they get cold like symptoms and not get them tested. A lot of school districts are still keeping kids home for 10 days when kids can be back in 3 days if they never get them tested.

Sort of the reverse where I am. Testing a 100k people a day in my county regardless of symptoms.

For both cases though the % positivity number will show what's going on. Here it's falling like a rock.

I dont think you can say they are inaccurate, it is precisely accurate for their hospital system, but you can question how they are extrapolated across the rest of the region.

waste water analysis paints a far more precise/accurate picture for the broad region by plant/zip code.

FWIW for another data point - Colorado test count has dropped 5 days in a row. I think this is the first time this has happened since Omicron started to spike on December 16. Total daily tests on Jan 19th were 80K and on the 24th there were 25K tests (latest data).

Until Omicron, I probably knew less than 15 people that were confirmed COVID positive. With Omicron I've lost track of how many positive cases I know (including myself and my wife).

Same story.

I could count the known positives in our "circle" through the first 2 years on my fingers and toes...the last 2 months...i don't know anyone at this point that has not had it. Really wild. It definitely was very contagious.

Somehow my wife and our four best friends haven't been infected. I am guessing it will get us sooner than later.

But we don't have school kids and we both work remote. But we live normally and have for over a year. Still travel out of the country and do whatever we fill like doing. We both went to the hospital several times lately for regular old people stuff, thought we might get it there.

And the fall continues in the Houston area!

DadHammer said:

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Good news. If it follows the SA curves it will be falling really fast.

Let's hope we can put this behind us and move on.

https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/weekly-average-of-covid-19-testing-metrics-across-tmc-hospital-systems/

Omicron might be the Covid version we needed to finally treat this like a common cold.

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Amen. Let's get to it.