Using wastewater data- the only data that measures the amount of circulating COVID-19 in an era of inaccessible tests and discouraged reporting- infectious disease modeler J.P. Weiland estimates that the US has yet again crossed the million-infections-per-day mark as of August 9, with about 1 in 33 Americans currently infected with COVID-19.
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I’ve written before about how, in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, Fauci publicly declared that US COVID cases would need to fall “well below 10,000 a day” for us to get a “degree of normality,” and allow us to return to pre-pandemic life. In the nearly three years since, the US has never had a single day with under 10,000 new COVID cases per day; in fact, we have never had a single day with under 100,000 new COVID cases per day.
Their source is “some tweet,” because now that the CDC has stopped collecting data it’s based on estimates from wastewater samples.
The People’s CDC has more links.
Not directed at you but I’m real damn tired of Twitter being used as a source for fucking anything. I don’t even care if it’s correct, sourced, verified, primary or whatever.
I agree. That people default to posting their research on Twitter is an indictment of not only contemporary journalism and academia but also of . . . pretty much everything else. I hate it, and I hate it even more when months later, I’m trying to figure out where I read something and it turns out to have been a Twitter screenshot or a dead link.
This. There’s no “good” data anymore, the governments of the world have completely given up.
Even wastewater as I understand we don’t know quite what to do with it. A strain that puts more virus in your stools might create the impression of more infection, while a strain that deposits less virus might mask how bad it is.