{"id":18051,"date":"2023-09-20T01:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18051"},"modified":"2023-09-20T01:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:25:29","slug":"wastewater-shows-covid-levels-dipping-as-hospitalizations-tick-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18051","title":{"rendered":"Wastewater shows COVID levels dipping as hospitalizations tick up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New data collected from wastewater samples indicates that detected COVID-19 levels are decreasing nationwide, while cases and hospitalizations&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4190357-covid-surges-heading-into-fall-what-you-need-to-know\/\"><u>continue to tick up<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The levels of COVID detected in wastewater samples dropped by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/biobot.io\/data\/\"><u>about 5 percent nationwide<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in the last week, according to data from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/biobot.io\/\"><u>Biobot Analytics<\/u><\/a>, a platform that tracks COVID through wastewater. Data from wastewater can provide early warnings of the spread of COVID cases across regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though wastewater collection sites in the West, Midwest and Northeast show a steady uptick in levels of COVID detected, wastewater samples in the South show enough of a decrease to tip the overall national detected levels in a downward trajectory for the last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, wastewater data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&nbsp;<a href=\"#wastewater-surveillance\"><u>shows virus levels increasing<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;at more sites reporting data within the last week, though the CDC indicates that data collected since the beginning of the month may be subject to reporting delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, positive cases and COVID-related hospitalizations and deaths are still continuing to rise through the end of summer and into the beginning of fall,\u00a0<a href=\"#maps_new-admissions-rate-county\"><u>according to data<\/u><\/a>\u00a0from the CDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4212895-wastewater-shows-covid-levels-dipping-as-hospitalizations-tick-up\/\">Thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data collected from wastewater samples indicates that detected COVID-19 levels are decreasing nationwide, while cases and hospitalizations&nbsp;continue to tick up. The levels of COVID detected in wastewater samples dropped by&nbsp;about 5 percent nationwide&nbsp;in the last week, according to data from&nbsp;Biobot Analytics, a platform that tracks COVID through wastewater. Data from wastewater can provide early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5780],"tags":[1158,22544,22543,22546,10399,3067,22545],"class_list":["post-18051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livehood","tag-cases","tag-covid-cases","tag-covid-spread","tag-covid-water","tag-hospitalizations","tag-rise","tag-wastewater-samples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18053,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18051\/revisions\/18053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}