It's hard to know what's happening about SARS-CoV-2, because the whole world has decided to "move on". I had to double-check, but the virus is still classified as BSL-3 when working with live virus. There is, however, use of BSL-2 safety protocols when working with inactivated virus. Regardless, either option is waaaaay more precautions than most people take in day-to-day life with virus still floating in the air everywhere. The CDC (I think, no link handy at the moment) has even taken to recalibrating their wastewater data graph, so the low points appear as nearly nonexistent presence rather than just low, pretending that there are times when transmission risk is zero. Ugh.
Edit: I had to go check again. Here's the CDC chart, link below. Notice farther down the page their own definitions for Minimal versus Low transmission. Then follow the data lines in the chart in the "Minimal" section. Some areas clearly qualify as "Low" transmission instead. Blatant misrepresentation, and this guy has a screenshot of what it used to look like, but when I check archive.org, the scraping is all kinds of messed up so I can't actually see the graph in the past to confirm. https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html
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Date: 2024-Nov-26, Tuesday 01:55 pm (UTC)Edit: I had to go check again. Here's the CDC chart, link below. Notice farther down the page their own definitions for Minimal versus Low transmission. Then follow the data lines in the chart in the "Minimal" section. Some areas clearly qualify as "Low" transmission instead. Blatant misrepresentation, and this guy has a screenshot of what it used to look like, but when I check archive.org, the scraping is all kinds of messed up so I can't actually see the graph in the past to confirm.
https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html