Day 699: Excreting COVID

The long-awaited post-holiday numbers have appeared at the MWRA poop wastewater surveillance page. If you check the tiny print on the x-axis you'll see this chart is for the entire pandemic, and we've vastly exceeded last winter's pre-vaccine numbers.

You can hardly get tested for love or money here, between holiday pre-testing consuming the OTC test supplies, and holiday closures of the woefully unprepared official testing sites. So expect the true case numbers to remain confined to the poop for now.

Still, it could be worse. We could be like Puerto Rico.

P.S. Massachusetts cases were up 2% today.