US Update based on #COVID19 in wastewater:

▪️ 1 of every 29 Americans is now infectious.
▪️ A room with 20 people is likely to include someone with COVID.
▪️ COVID is spreading more than during 95% of the pandemic.
▪️ We'll see 2M new infections daily before this peaks in two weeks.
▪️ We're adding between 600,000 and 2.3M new cases of Long COVID each week.
▪️ We could now be in the 2nd-worst surge of the pandemic. (We won't know for a week or two due to data lags.)

https://www.pmc19.com/data/index.php

Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative - COVID-19 Data Dashboard

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#nzpol
Is Aotearoa doing enough not to follow suit? When will Luxon and Reti be holding 1pm media briefings? When will yellow and black diagonally striped posters appear? Or are we going to be like England this time?