ggratton

Covid infection rates in Oshkosh went up only very slightly despite a population growth of 650000 people in their city for over a week. Statistics indicate the AirVenture SUPER SPREADER does not come close to being beyond 2 SD of the mean. That means the population is “normal”.
5 to 7 day incubation would make travel to the event from home more likely to be a spreader and “the spreader is me”.
Covid 19 is like a flu or cold. I will, it has, and it will continue to have mutations. Just like the cold or flu, it will probably require annual boosters for the foreseeable future, and be treatable but incurable, for a long time.
Brace yourself for the ordinary! Beware the normal!

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keith

Yes, modified vaccines are coming this fall despite gummint bureaucracy.
(Some are available now for persons at quite high risk.)

A bit of lesser juggling occurring including reduced dose of MODERNA as booster because it was a high dose.

Combination SARS2-INFLUENZA vaccines may be available.

I want the high strength INFLUENZA vaccine recommended for older persons as some of us do not react as strongly to INFLUENZA vaccine as younger people. I’ll monitor myself more than usual.

Vaccines are not zero risk, just as flying is not. For example, with vaccine for the perennial killer INFLUENZA, Guilliam-Bare paralysis syndrome does occur and in a very few people persists. (I gather than allergic reactions that occur may be caused by the preservatives, emulsifiers, and other constituents not the virus-killing. Hence the looong questionnaire your pharmacist may give you.)

Meanwhile research continues to vaccines that cover many more variants inherently, meanwhile for INFLUENZA the cocktail now covers four. And research especially with mRNA technology may cover more diseases, BioNTech (Pfizer) people were working on one but switched to SARS2 as that virus emerged.