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There are some states where Covid is spreading the most.
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 summer. But given what it would feel like to return to mainstream California in those days, hearing about the surge in Covid cases would likely 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 traction and fueling a national increase in cases since May.
We know cases are emerging because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tests for the virus in wastewater from more than 1,000 wastewater treatment sites across the country, opening a window into viral trends in a community. This knowledge has become particularly useful as others More and more people are taking Covid tests at home and may not report their results. And wastewater monitoring can detect Covid in an area even when other people don’t show symptoms or get tested.
Wastewater knowledge displays that at the starting of July, Covid degrees national were about as top as they were in March, at the finish of the last winter wave. The C. D. C. considers this point of spread to be top.
In California, however, the CDC considers Covid degrees to be very high, based on the knowledge of 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. The last time the degrees reached this high in California was in January, much closer to the peak of our winter wave.
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