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Lots of cities missing from this, many exist but lack any data Not sure how helpful this is when huge swathes of the population aren’t represented here
by cgb223 4y ago
Lots of cities missing from this, many exist but lack any data
Not sure how helpful this is when huge swathes of the population aren’t represented here
- amalter 4y agoWastewater facilities are almost always run by local government. I expect it takes time to get buy in for a project like this. I didn't see if there was a grant to cover the testing, but you at very least need a worker to package up samples and mail them to a lab. Still, this is tremendously useful where there is coverage, and looks like enough data to make sampling type of conclusions. Hopefully we'll eventually see some kind of network effect. For example, I'm in the NYC area - and Newark NJ has coverage. There is enough overlap that I expect flu and covid curves (including strains) to be close enough to be interesting.
- datameta 4y agoWith fewer people commuting to work there's less overlap, but enough new yorkers have family in NJ and vice versa that I suspect suspect Newark should be pretty accurate for NYC +/- 5-15% with a lag time of a week max.
- Eric_WVGG 4y agohere's the CDC charts, includes NYC https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#wastewater-surveillance https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#wastewater-surveil...