I don’t follow the “Yankee Candle” metric but I *do* follow the “how many coworkers are calling in sick and asking people to cover their shifts” metric and that one is definitely trending up right now.
More and more chatter in COVID-aware and variant tracker spaces about a COVID summer wave. That includes from modelers who don't constantly and almost always erroneously predict an imminent surge. Notably, there are several multi-recombinant variants gaining significant ground.

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