• Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The data isn’t as easy to find as it used to be:

    I generally check this every week to get a high-level feel for how the pandemic is going. For months now there’s been around a 1% drop every week. You’ll notice a slight up-tick this last week, breaking that trend.

    https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

    Waste water surveillance is probably the easiest, most accurate way to determine the actual state of the pandemic.

    You can generally get some good data here:

    https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/wastewater-surveillance

    Not all waste water data gets sent there, so Google your state ant COVID waste water and you can probably find some universities or state government run trackers that might have better data specific to your area.

    Finally, excess mortalities can be a helpful metric to watch as well, but it’s more about the overall state of the pandemic, not how any particular week is going.

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm