• @Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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      107 months ago

      There’s a lot of southern states that have remarkably low positivity rates. Their vaccination rates can’t be very good there, so I’m a curious what the story is there.

        • SeaJ
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          -77 months ago

          Not sure there was much to that surprisingly. The woman who reported it, Rebekah Jones, is completely batshit.

      • @arin@lemmy.world
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        77 months ago

        Just check the waste water data and find out if the concentration of covid is high

      • ElleChaise
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        17 months ago

        Were you living in the South during the outbreak, or purely speculating?

        • flicker
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          77 months ago

          I lived here the whole time and that person is correct.

          However my anecdotal experience is most people are refusing to test. Can’t get positive if you don’t test. 😩

          • dadarobot
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            77 months ago

            I live in arkansas, and i had covid last month. I did a home test, but its not like i reported it to anyone except my work, and family…

      • @RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world
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        -67 months ago

        Many people had COVID and lived and thus acquired immunity. I vaguely remember reading something along these lines during the last year’s sick season, that the total immunity is actually much higher since it’s a combination of immunity through immunization plus immunity after actual illness.

    • nicetriangle
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      Found this data for people who got the booster. Basic takeaway is that rates for the booster are low in general, but especially so for the south and a good chuck of flyover country.

      I would guess then that we’re gonna see infections spike in southern states come January. By then it will be cold and Christmas and New Years will have happened.

      https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-booster-percent-pop5

      Edit: found a map covering more than just boosters. Same apparent trend overall as the booster map.

      https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html