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As of April 1 Iowa is no longer reporting data to the #cdc

Yet the new #covid weekly infections are around the same as March 2020, before the vaccines.

.. and the death rate is creeping up, again almost exactly what it was in March 2020.

It will be interesting to see what hoops are travelled through to make things look like covid is gone by May 11. I suppose more states will stop reporting, "magically". As a percentage the weekly death rate will be tricky to manipulate; I suppose it will magically disappear.

The #Walgreens positivity rate is really my go to now. When it trends down to <%10, that will be a good indicator, combined with the wastewater change dropping across >95% of the sites, then I'll entertain the "covid is over" narrative.

But obviously it's not. And the death rate going up is in line with immunity going away. I'd like to get another #booster, preferably #Novavax ... but that's not going to happen, is it?