Covid-19 -- Update -- February 9, 2023

Whatever happened to the hysteria: from less than a month ago, January 17, 2023 -- most recent CDC data -- it never happened --

Covid: ‘Tripledemic’ anxiety has LAUSD parents pleading for mask mandate.

Many Los Angeles parents are navigating another troubling winter of health worries, as COVID-19, flu cases and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, continue to circulate.

Among many low-income or multifamily households, a contagious virus threatens both their child and their financial stability.

A group of families, largely Spanish-speaking parents from East and South Los Angeles, is now asking L.A. Unified for mandatory masking and to re-establish on-campus weekly coronavirus testing.

They have not yet received a direct response from the district. But at a January 9, 2023, news conference, Supt. Alberto Carvalho took on what he referred to as “misinformation, disinformation, confusion and unwarranted fear.”

Links today:

• nice update; Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation;
• a quick guide; useful but not particularly good; Yale Medicine; February 3, 2023;
• "fourth wave" -- December 3, 2021; biospace;

Japan: still not out of the woods.

US: something worked.