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Holli's avatar

"(Keep in mind that reported cases remain flat; these no longer accurately reflect transmission due to at home antigen testing.) The City University of New York system is 24 colleges. across the 5 boroughs and the students and employees live not only in NYC but also outside of it in NJ, Long Island etc. They do randomized testing of faculty, staff and students (all who have at least had the initial vaccine) weekly.

It's a good way to track infection rates. During Omicron, the positivity rate was over 20%. It has stayed at 1.5% for the past two weeks. It is probably one of the best ways to consistently track transmission since people are picked at random.

https://www.cuny.edu/coronavirus/safety-tracker/

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Dave Devine (Cologne, Germany)'s avatar

I asked my GP here in Germany about getting a booster in December since my fiancé and I both had Covid in June. He is strictly following guidance of the Standing Commission for Immunization, which currently only recommends boosters for people over the age of sixty with at least 6 months since an infection or last immunization. Same applies to at risk persons with certain chronic diseases (which my coronary artery disease apparently is not). You’d think with the information in this report they would be thankful for every person looking to get boostered.

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