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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are things still surging?  [/quote]

According to wastewater and hospital admissions, yes.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#wastewater-surveillance

According to DCUM, no. It's just a cold.

Choose wisely![/quote]

Wastewater data suggests there's an increase, but it doesn't speak to the magnitude of the increase.

Hospitalizations suggests there's an increase, but not a surge.  Hospitalizations of patients with COVID are up 14% from last week.  But both the overall number of hospitalized patients and the sustained rate of increase are far below previous surges.[/quote]
Agreed.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/a-new-coronavirus-variant-has-become-dominant-but-fewer-people-are-being-hospitalized-this-winter-than-last/ar-AA1mwHsL

“ “Measures of severe disease and hospitalizations are about 30% lower than they were at the same time last year. This basically means each infection is less likely to result in illness that requires medical care, which is welcoming news for our hospital systems and individuals alike,” said Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and scientific adviser to the CDC. ... Wastewater data suggests that this winter’s Covid activity has surpassed last winter’s, according to preliminary CDC estimates. But the data comes with caveats: It only measures activity among people connected to a municipal sewer system and who are participating in the program. By the CDC’s count, this comes out to about 40% of the U.S. population.”
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So there’s something dramatically different about participating municipal sewer systems that makes their numbers be up, but perhaps people on septic or in nonparticipating municipal systems are actually experiencing dramatically lower numbers and it averages out? That’s the theory here?

You do understand that wastewater measurements are not opted into on a household basis, right?

Y’all crazy[/quote]

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