Something notable from this chart comparing U.S. COVID wastewater levels by year, is that we've never seen levels this high at this time of the year!
(indicated by the black line representing current levels, crossing the blue line representing Omicron levels in 2022)
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@luckytran Viron particle count seems like a horribly misleading way to measure the severity of the pandemic.
@freemo
And what do you suggest?
@luckytran
Two suggestions 1) be sure to explain this graph is not an indication of the secrity of the disease so it doesn't misinform people. 2) get good data that is actually good at indicating the severity of a disease. Mortality rate and transmission rate together are generally the two numbers that have some validity at this.
@freemo
Unless you have a special body part you're pulling #2 out of, no pun intended, then good luck with that.
Personally, wastewater is the only data I trust as the other two you listed can be cooked/ manipulated.
Deaths don't show severity of a disease. I'm so sick of death being the determiner of how bad #Covid is when so many, sooooooo many people are alive with #LongCovid
I mean I literally do #2 for a living. Just spent several years getting good data regarding COVID-19.. it costs a lot of money, but no not pulled out of our ass.
> Personally, wastewater is the only data I trust as the other two you listed can be cooked/ manipulated.
I trust data regarding the severity of COVID by counting the number of green apples on a tree in my yard because it would be very hard to manipulate that data.
Data being hard to manipulate doesnt really help you when it has no relevance of any kind to the thing you are trying to measure (severity of a disease in a population).
> Deaths don't show severity of a disease. I'm so sick of death being the determiner of how bad #Covid is when so many, sooooooo many people are alive with #LongCovid
Depends on what your trying to measure. Death is certainly one way of measuring severity, one particular kind of severity. But you are right that other metrics need to be considered along side that, namely morbidity as a whole.
Morbidity is not death, thats mortality. Morbidity are just conditions you get, here I am implying something called a co-morbidity which is just a fancy term for a sickness that often occurs along side COVID-19, such as long-covid.
@freemo
Read too fast. My mistake.
@luckytran
@freemo
@luckytran
Again with the death. I'm not concerned about death, immediate or later.
Just your luck, you'll survive.
#LongCovid
And I don't know what data you're paying good money for or where but this country took away testing and reporting and won't even say the word #Covid so we might as well all be counting apples.