A key indicator for tracking the spread of the COVID-19 virus has increased, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The summer surge of COVID-19 doesn’t appear to be slowing down — instead, a key indicator for tracking the spread of the virus has increased, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In an update shared Friday, official data showed wastewater activity for COVID-19 is now at a “moderate” level nationwide, up from “low” the previous week.

Wastewater levels for the virus are currently the highest in the Western U.S., the data also showed. States in this region showing high levels include: Alaska, California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah.

  • Trinsec@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Covid is still around, but our levels are fairly low. Here the covid levels are also tested with the wastewater. So if theirs is on the rise, and ours is so low and stable, then there’s something weird going on. Looking at the other comments, I suppose vaccinations play a large role in this.

    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      As someone “over there”, it isn’t just vaccinations. The increasingly (and now fully) fascist government and corpocratic economic structure have given rise to what I perceive to be significantly higher rates of Social Darwinist and other “fuck you, I got mine” attitudes, especially among men but also in general. This, combined with a total dereliction of duty on the part of regulators (see: Fascist Corpocracy) and the fact that people are facing both economic and direct verbal pressure from their bosses to come in when they are sick (again, see: Fascist Corpocracy), and finally with the coup de grace of people being whiny-ass imbeciles who “can’t stand” having a mask on, has led to a completely uncontrollable spiral towards what I can only conclude will be the breeding ground of another pandemic (because, as this news proves, THIS ONE AIN’T OVER YET, despite what seemingly everyone wants to pretend). I wear a P100 half-face respirator everywhere I go, including 9 hours a day as a high school teacher. I’ve had COVID 6 times. The only reason I’m still alive is because I’ve gotten the vaccine re-upped at every possible opportunity.

    • sykaster@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      The wastewater testing is a great point, I didnt think they’d still be measuring that

          • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            5 hours ago

            Oh, sure. Ever since 2022, people have been sick of the reality, that the pandemic isn’t just neatly going away. Several states, including mine, have made it harder and harder to find the current wastewater data, let alone any other statistics. I currently just search for the exact title of the webpage, because otherwise it’s a link tree five pages deep, and I don’t want to have to play TheWikiGame every time I try to figure out how dangerous it is to be around people. The CDC data tracker was, at one point one to two years ago (haven’t checked recently, since I finally just starred it), so difficult to find in their mess of webpages that it took me no less than ten clicks to get to it. Every other screen wanted me to search “by county” (or just had vapid nonsense that was just watered down from their 2022 recommendations) because they had hidden the nationwide map away. This, to me, screams that they don’t want people seeing the screaming yellow and red all over the map every two months when they remember “oh yeah, COVID exists.”