Sure. 7 day average has peaked if that's what you want to use. And wastewater? You're checking toilets now, GWB? Found your calling!
In an era of at-home test kits with many results not being reported, the waste water monitoring is one of the most accurate assessments of the level of Covid in a community.
You have to look at hospitalizations and mortality with Covid. Right now, vaccines, boosters and prior infection is holding up well. We are at about 300 fatalities a day, which is on the low side. What I will say is the south is the most vulnerable region in the nation for excessive Covid losses. They have the worst Heath profile and lowest vaccination numbers. A surge is building and should be moving through the south in a month or two. There could be a lot of pain coming down there.
The South always sees a jump in cases every summer. We go inside, you guys come outside. It reverses in the winter. For the last two summers, GWB has come here squawking about DeSantis, as if the governor of Florida causes the seasonal spike in viral load. Then, at the end of August, he goes silent again.
We’ll see how the south weathers the anticipated surge. I am concerned they will see excess losses. But all we can do is track it. My point was Covid spread is not what should be the focal issue, but hospitalizations and mortality. This is what gets my antennae twitching.
Coupled with the new Omicron variants (BA.2.12.1, BA.4, BA.5) -- which are more infectious and having a previous Omicron cases provides limited protection against -- the table is being set for a resurgence in states such as Florida and others. All which utilize few proper public health policies while effectively having no surveillance or reporting done by the state. The picture for the next few months is not shaping up to look pretty in numerous states -- many in the South -- despite vaccines, boosters, and prior infections providing some immunity and protection from severe illness. At this point, we can only hope that hospitalizations and deaths don't rise greatly even if cases go way up.
You know if Ron DeSantis put into place the measures strongly suggested by the CDC to address Covid spread in counties with high disease prevalence then the cases might not jump so high in Florida. This is not merely a seasonal thing -- it is easy to point out huge spikes in Florida in winter months as sell. But DeSantis cares more about his political narrative than the health of the residents in his state -- so nothing will be done except for additional suffering and misery due to lack of proper public measures. COVID comeback: Much of Florida at high risk of straining hospitals; indoor masks urged https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story...ls-high-risk-being-strained-covid/9941070002/ The latest wave of COVID-19 infections, driven by omicron subvariants of the coronavirus, has surged so much that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people in most of central and southern Florida should mask up while indoors. The CDC's "COVID-19 Community Levels" system says the disease has a high risk of straining hospitals in much of Florida, including its east coast south of St. Johns County; Alachua County; counties along Interstate 4; and the parts of Interstate 75 stretching from Tampa Bay through Sarasota County. In these counties, infection tallies have soared past 200 cases for every 100,000 residents in the past week. Over that same time period, COVID hospitalizations have risen past 10 per 100,000 in the same period, meaning at least 10% of hospital beds are occupied by patients who tested positive. Two weeks ago, only the South Florida counties of Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade were categorized as high-risk. The CDC recommends indoor masking only in high-risk counties. (More at above url)
Sure they would. They would be just the same as all the other states (who don't have their own DeSantis). Considering we have the most elderly in the country, to be #19 on the COVID death chart per 1M pop through the entire pandemic is a resounding success. Go away, stop obsessing. No one cares about your nonsense anymore.