Data on covid cases? Probably wrong. US research tells us
While Massachusetts reported a record 27,612 cases on Wednesday, Boston area wastewater samples collected last week suggest the official tally is nowhere near the actual number of Covid-19 infections.
Biobot Analytics, the Cambridge-based company that collects wastewater data, said Thursday that "the underestimation is now greater than ever."
In fact, since early December , the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority had to quintuple the y-axis on its chart to capture the exponential peak, which now dwarfs previous peaks in spring 2020 and last winter. The presence of Covid-19 on the ordinate side is indicated by the quantity of viral RNA per cubic meter of liquid examined.
Biobot chief of staff Casey McGinley said the latest data suggests infections in Boston and its suburbs are "much higher than they have ever been," adding, "We can't say for sure what percentage of all infected people are counted as cases, but the wastewater data supports that this percentage has become much smaller in recent days ”.
The system for detecting the virus through the waste water is not wrong, because it detects the presence of the virus even in people who know well and who, apparently, do not have any symptoms. This suggests that a mix between asymptomatic and a lack of home tests in the US means that the number of hits to the virus is much higher. The Biobot company said this data was also collected in other cities in the US. Showing how Omicron is fostering hidden spread.
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