NYT: COVID cases going up again

This should be no surprise if you've been following the data. Which apparently not many are anymore. And they'll likely continue to ignore this new data as well.  I realize people are tired of it and want it to be over but that is wishful thinking. Ignorance isn't bliss; it's just stupid.

"Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising in a majority of American states, in what appears to be the first widespread increase since the peak of the Omicron surge in January. Reports of new cases were nearly flat in the United States at the beginning of April, but as the month draws to a close, they are increasing in all but three states, signaling a wave that is increasingly national in scope."

"Hospitalizations are also on the rise nationwide, after plummeting early this month to their lowest point since March 2020. More than 30 states and territories have seen their hospitalization rates tick up in the past two weeks, and in much of the Northeast, the number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus has increased since mid-month by 40 percent or more."

And of course the above stats are way under reported and the situation is actually far worse: "Case counts have become an increasingly unreliable measure of the virus’s true toll, as Americans increasingly turn to at-home tests that go unreported."