COVID-19 in wastewater is at its highest level in Toronto since winter last year

https://wwater.ca/Ontario/Toronto

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUpIndoors

Toronto, Ontario - Wastewater πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

At-a-glance graphs of COVID-19, RSV, and flu levels in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

i don't give a toss if some NZ men felt "emasculated" during the first years of the pandemic, by being told to stay home and mask up and get vaccinated by her government. Jacinda Ardern and Ashley Bloomfield saved countless lives this way.

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUpIndoors

So per wastewater we're apparently infecting around 2M (or 0.5% of the population (2M/335M)) with #SarsCoV2 per day. Excluding coinfection with multiple immune evasive variants as a confounder, that's about 0.05-0.1% of the population predicted to be maimed with long term #sequelae, depending on which model you look at.

Conservative opinions place LC prevalence at 5-8% (Ashish Jha's comments) while others have cited up to 20% (CDC).

That's an awful lot of sequelae. Daily. #MaskUpIndoors

Happy Day. Who doesn’t like a gift?? Gifting to all this excellent story from #WaPo from Nov. #MaskUpIndoors in public or large group settings. An easy action to take for your health, for the health of others.

Who wants to be #sick w a #Cold, #Influenza #Flu #COVID?? Not me. Wear #N95 or #KF94 and #EnjoyLife

https://wapo.st/3FLXRCa

Universal masking leads to fewer covid cases in schools, study finds

New data backs public health rules from earlier in the pandemic.

The Washington Post
@bobkopp That's disappointing. We as scientists should lead by example instead of following the masses off an unknown cliff.
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