Anybody even watching wastewater or anything anymore? It’s so inconsistent and unavailable around me that I’ve basically accepted that we’re always at a minimum of like half the level of the Delta surge. I’m just constantly on edge around people who don’t mask.
Yeah, the problem with the nationwide stuff is the more you zoom out from the source the less resolution you have for your data. Like honestly it feels kind of reckless for researchers to be making nationwide claims based on wastewater nowadays when there are so many states with only a handful of monitoring sites. A single monitoring site doesn’t tell us anything about the distribution of cases within that site’s territory and the estimates only become dramatically more inaccurate the larger the territory the monitoring site is estimated to represent. Especially when we’re outside of the typical large surges and the handful of monitoring stations you have in a geographic area aren’t showing synchronous elevation in levels of infection.
My state still offers a site with the info. but I’m also in a major city which probably makes useful data more available; every national source keeps shutting down, though…
Anybody even watching wastewater or anything anymore? It’s so inconsistent and unavailable around me that I’ve basically accepted that we’re always at a minimum of like half the level of the Delta surge. I’m just constantly on edge around people who don’t mask.
This is the best resource for wastewater info if you’re in the US:
https://www.pmc19.com/data/index.php
Yeah, the problem with the nationwide stuff is the more you zoom out from the source the less resolution you have for your data. Like honestly it feels kind of reckless for researchers to be making nationwide claims based on wastewater nowadays when there are so many states with only a handful of monitoring sites. A single monitoring site doesn’t tell us anything about the distribution of cases within that site’s territory and the estimates only become dramatically more inaccurate the larger the territory the monitoring site is estimated to represent. Especially when we’re outside of the typical large surges and the handful of monitoring stations you have in a geographic area aren’t showing synchronous elevation in levels of infection.
My state still offers a site with the info. but I’m also in a major city which probably makes useful data more available; every national source keeps shutting down, though…
I use wastewaterscan but there’s not a monitoring site in 200 miles of me.
I stopped bothering like a year ago; if it hadn’t gotten better by then, I don’t think it’s likely to get better any time soon.
(Plus my city stopped reporting data)
There’s a testing site in my city, but some sites are being shut down by DOGE.