US wastewater shows second-highest ever Covid wave
Wastewater tests conducted by the US firm Biobot are showing the second-highest ever peak in readings for Covid for the entire pandemic.
Although these charts are for the period up to December 28th 2022, they do not yet include details about the new XBB.1.5 wave in the US, and show the original XBB recombinant variant at just 5%.
Read the full Biobot.io data report here
Wave confirmed by analyses of CDC data by the People’s CDC:
I made a visualization of how XBB.1.5 will spread across the country.
Expect the next few weeks of CDC XBB.1.5 data to appear to slow down in the next few weeks as Northeast saturates and other places catch up. It won’t be actually slowing. pic.twitter.com/CDZ8p9EjSp
— JWeiland (@JPWeiland) December 30, 2022
XBB.1.5 at a staggering FORTY PERCENT of sequences in the US