Apparently BF7 is being upstaged by this upstart, XBB15. CDC screwed up and did not list it for over a month now. It’s in NY/NE and climbing fast. So fast they don’t have an accurate Ro number, but it said to be 100% worse than any of the other variants. Roughly gauging because I can’t leave things blank, that would put the Ro ~20-37. Yeah, it’s made in America (country of origin). This little mess is going to cause some serious grief.

As I said when you see it, it’s too late. Lots of rationalization going on, trying to figure out what to do. This is going to change everything.

Eric is the Twitter Covid guru. Interesting read, I think he sees the implications but those commenting are left in the dust, still processing the information. Good graph on mitigation,..

https://twitter.com/_/status/1609320112582021120