:rust-darkness:
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/covid-could-be-surging-in-the-us-right-now-and-we-might-not-even-know-it/
I had come in to drop my opinion, and here you summed it up perfectly. Memes have become the most efficient means of communication.
It's a bullshit headline. They can test wastewater, they know. Even your article acknowledges it:
For weeks, sewer data has shown cases are increasing in some regions of the U.S. — foreshadowing the uptick in positives that places like New York and Massachusetts are now seeing.
According to the CDC, the majority of the country is still considered low risk. Public health experts argue this is misleading though, given hospitalization and death generally occur days to weeks after initial infection. Without widespread testing, that could make it impossible to detect a surge until it’s too late to do anything about it.
“CDC is understating and downplaying cases,” said Gregg Gonsalves, an infectious disease expert at Yale’s School of Public Health. “Their alarm bells won’t go off until we see a rise in hospitalizations and deaths, which are lagging indicators.”
