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There are some states where Covid is spreading even more.
By Soumya Karlamangla
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Once again we find ourselves in the middle of a wave of Covid-19.
This is not surprising: since 2020, cases have increased in winter and again in summer. But given the return to normality that California might feel in those days, hearing about the increase in Covid cases would probably surprise some of us.
This is what you want to know.
Covid has never stopped circulating in our communities and new variants continue to appear regularly. Currently, two of these variants, called KP. 3 and KP. 2, are gaining ground and fueling a national surge in cases since May.
We know cases are rising because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tests wastewater from more than 1,000 wastewater treatment sites across the country for the virus, providing a window into viral trends in a community. This knowledge has become particularly useful as more people take Covid tests at home and may not report their results. And wastewater tracking can detect Covid in an area even when other people don’t have symptoms or been tested.
Wastewater data shows that in early July, nationwide Covid levels were as high as in March, at the end of the last winter wave. considers this dispersion point to be maximum.
In California, however, the CDC considers Covid levels to be very high, based on knowledge from the state’s 43 water reporting sites. There are only three states (Florida, Nevada and Oregon) where Covid is spreading at higher rates, according to knowledge. Degrees last reached this high in California in January, much closer to the peak of our winter surge.
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