Editor’s letter
It’s fitting that fatigue is the most common symptom of long Covid, when we are all so very tired of this endless pandemic. Once again, America is in a Covid surge, with hospitalizations up 20 percent in just two weeks and daily new cases now breaking 100,000—and that’s the undercount. It’s impossible to say how many people are really infected, because many of us test positive at home and don’t report it to local health authorities, and plenty of counties have abandoned even trying to track weekly cases. Nearly a quarter of adults never got a single shot, and more than half aren’t boosted. This sneaky new Omicron variant, meanwhile, BA.2.12.1, is spreading rapidly, even among the vaccinated and boosted. But my fellow Americans just don’t want to hear about…