Senator Bernie Sanders tests positive for COVID-19 during Senate break as infections rise nationally

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Senator Bernie Sanders tests positive for COVID-19 during Senate break as infections rise nationally - Lemmy.World

Covid has been added to the many viruses that we call a cold. It’s not the deadly virus it once was and is harmless to the majority of the human population.

If you have immune issues you should wear as mask as a precaution.

It’s still a deadly virus, just not as contagious as it first was

Ummm it’s only behind measles on how contagious it is. These omicron strains are insanely contagious. Way more than OG, alpha, delta etc.

Even though measles is more contagious, the time from infection to contagious is much longer, so covid will spread much faster than measles as well.

Based on the CDC published final 2022 estimates, Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. adults and older teens had still not caught COVID-19 by the end of last year, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while 77.5% had antibodies from at least one prior infection.

Those who have gotten it seem to get it again and again.

nbcnews.com/…/covid-5-times-people-describe-illne….

People who got Covid at least 5 times describe how illness changed

Five people who've gotten Covid at least five times describe their experiences. Several, but not all, said later infections were less severe than the first.

NBC News