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[quote=Anonymous][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.[/quote]

I mean, what’s your theory here? While in the past wastewater has been tracking other measurements of infection—in magnitude as well as existence—somewhere along the way the link broke and now wastewater doesn’t do that anymore?

You think people with COVID are shedding more of it now per person and somehow driving the wastewater numbers up?

Do tell.[/quote]

No, the data shows that wastewater data is correlated with other indicators of case rates. But correlation does not suggest a direct, linear relationship. That is, there isn't data showing that a doubling of wastewater measurements implied a doubling of case rates. There are too many other factors that influence the measurements. If you bothered to read the caveats around the wastewater data, you would know this.[/quote]

So—exactly as I said—the other indicators do track in orders of magnitude, but because they don’t track perfectly 1:1 all along the X axis, you feel this is discardable information?[/quote]

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