588
New Covid variant has been identified and is already spreading in 25 states
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
588 points (98.5% liked)
News
36794 readers
2913 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.
Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.
7. No duplicate posts.
If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I wish there was a map by county or something. Some states are just too large that it would be great to be able to see hotspots in particular.
We don't have that kind of granularity anymore, both because RFK Jr and DOGE have significantly cut public health funding and because there are so many variants out there now and so little difference between them in terms of presenting symptoms
theres usually one dominant one causing the latest symptoms. last year was the nasty razor blade sore throat one that was bypassing vaccines(i was vaccinated to covid few months prior) i was still hit with the covid full force.
Track CDN data.
Toronto has a huge spike this week in wastewater. That's a region of 6 million.
https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness-care/health-inspections-monitoring/communicable-disease-surveillance-reports/integrated-respiratory-diseases-dashboard/
That doesn't break it down by variant either tho
Well, you don't get one.
Because RFK Jr is in charge, after DOGE gutted basically all the staff in charge of doing things lile that, as well as exposing basically all internal government webservices for foreign actors and random hackers to nose their ways in.
We could try and crowd source one, but at this point, doing so might mean the government decides those involved are domestic terrorists.
Welcome to fascism, with Ya'll Qaeda characteristics.
Reminder that during the less insane Trump Term 1, Trump spent the crucial initial months publically telling everyone it was China's fault, stymying coordination and response planning / early stage plan activation and eventually settled out selling Federally controlled supplies to the highest State/Hospital bidder.
Oh and don't forget to consider injecting yourself with bleach.
Remember when he paraded out the CEOs in front of TV cameras and said all these parking lots around the country would be set up for testing and vaxxing when the vax was ready? And that was his big plan to address the pandemic ...
Fudgy remembers.
They still exist, but the number of samples is orders of magnitude away from what we've been used to in the early years of the pandemic.
https://covariants.org/per-country?region=United+States