sport of sacred spherical cows<p>A FLuQE wavelet opened September, cresting as KP.3.1.1 / MC wave into November. FDA's second-guess vaccine target, KP.2, dropped out in December. Updated <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> estimates indicate we've been in a JN.1.11 soup pretty much since then. </p><p>No new variants broken out by CDC, as KP.1.1.3 / LP descendant LP.8.1 approaches majority.</p><p>No recent GISAID data—as Raj's dashboard hasn't updated in near a month.</p><p>❖ <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ThisIsOurPolio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsOurPolio</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SARS2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SARS2</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/variants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>variants</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CovidIsAirborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsAirborne</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataviz</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/datavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datavis</span></a></p>