The Delta variant, now the most common worldwide, has substantially increased COVID risk, including for vaccinated people. We discuss the risk of hospitalization, death, long-term symptoms, and of passing the infection to the people around you.
Navigating house/pod agreements around COVID can be really stressful. We made a tool to help make it a lot easier.
With caseloads near record highs and new, more infectious COVID variants starting to spread, it's time to upgrade your masks to N95 or better, both to protect yourself and to slow the spread of the disease
The new variant of COVID, B117, is ~50% more contagious than the viruses that were circulating before. We explain why that matters and how microCOVID is changing to account for this.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, people have wanted to use negative COVID-19 tests to tell them they were safe and COVID free. While tests are far from perfect, negative tests do give us some information. We explain how to update your risk assessment from getting a negative test.
HEPA filters can provide a 4x reduction to Covid-19 transmission. We detail how to use this to reduce the risk of gatherings in the winter.
Thanksgiving is approaching as Coronavirus is spiking. I used microCOVID to examine the risks of flying home for Thanksgiving (spoilers: it's really quite dangerous).
We’ve been hard at work improving the microCOVID calculator to make it better and easier to use. Today we’re announcing Version 2 of our calculator. Much of the interface will feel familiar, but there have been some changes to reduce confusion and improve the user flow.