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Ed Suominen

These two plots tell a sad story about where we are in with the . From what limited information is still available nowadays, it seems like the whole country is experiencing yet another wave of circulation, but my local region is all I really try to keep up with anymore.

I will try to explain in a 🧵 why this is all so crazy and awful. Read on if you care about your ability to engage in mental, physical, and even sexual activity.

Spokane SARS2 wastewater levels, 2022 through last week. There is a red horizontal line showing the current level, which is not shown in this plot but is shown in the other one attached to this post. The red line is near the median level for the past year and a half. It’s about halfway between the very lowest levels during the lull of spring 2022 and the bumpy plateau of that summer.
This plot shows the latest virus circulation numbers at the right, with the red horizontal line showing that level. We are back to the 2023 mean and median. The trend is obviously not good, either.
#CovidIsNotOver
Ed Suominen

Updated plot for County, Eastern State

Details in the alt-text. There’s really nothing encouraging about this except a slightly clearer trend being linear rather than exponential. Lots of people have this thing in their bodies right now. With immunity against infection now basically negligible, lots more sick at work, and almost no masking, the average person is much more prone to get infected from that than ever before.

Spokane County SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentration levels since the big lull of Spring 2022. The trend remains upward from the recent lull of April-May 2023. There was a spike that exceeded the median for the plotted points and may have reached the mean. Back down to what it was a week or so ago.
Aug 24, 2023, 01:40 AM·Public
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