COVID-19 experts say Omicron is peaking in the US, citing data from poop samples www.yahoo.com/news/covid-19-experts-omicron-peaking-20582199…
A network of more than 100 wastewater treatment plants across the US is measuring COVID-19 levels in our poop. Nationally, “the level of the virus in the wastewater is at a record high,” one scientist said, which means there are more people in the US with COVID-19 right now than ever before. The good news is that our poop data also suggests that the Omicron wave may be peaking right about now…
“When the number of COVID-19-positive samples in sewage go up, 3 to 7 days later, the number of reported cases go up,” CDC environmental engineer Mia Mattioli explained…Matus lives in the Boston area, which currently has some of the most sophisticated publicly-available poop data, courtesy of her company, Biobot…In recent weeks, Boston’s poop has been quite COVID-rich. In it, there are some early signals that infection rates are starting to decline from the recent all-time high…
If the trends continue, infection rates should decline sharply soon.
What concerns me is the take-away from the media blather is “it’s all going away, this is the end of the plague”.
Reality check: waves have come and gone before. The end of the previous waves were not the end of the plague.
Narrative in March of 2020: “two weeks to stop the spread”…“it will be gone by Easter”…“it will be gone by Memorial Day”…“it will be gone by July”…“don’t need a vax, it will go away on it’s own”…
What happens if people get lazy about boosters, lose their immunity, and another wave comes next fall? How are people going to react?