A Covid-19 dispatch | No. 176 — December 26, 2021

I have covid-19 (and seem to have contracted it from someone who was boosted)

Dec 27, 2021

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Dear readers,

I am on my third day of experiencing rather punishing symptoms from contracting Covid-19. I have shakes and shivers, a mild fever, congestion, severe fatigue, and hypersensitivity to touch on my torso. These are the hallmarks of the Omicron variant of the virus — and with no way to confirm that (as standard tests do not sequence the virus, so cannot distinguish between variations), I’m going to assume that is what I contracted.

This is a reasonable assumption, I think, as cases are increasing nearly exponentially in the places I have spent the most time over the past two weeks: Austin, Texas, and Washington, DC (which is seeing a particularly bad wave). See here for the data:

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