UPDATE: In the US, COVID wastewater levels are now low.
If you've been holding off getting healthcare or doing other indoor activities, now is one of the best times of the year to do these things more safely.
Based on patterns from previous years, in the US, spring and early summer are usually the times when there is lower COVID-19 transmission compared to other times of year.
Although COVID wastewater levels are relatively lower now, there is still a "substantial" baseline level of COVID (thanks to more transmissible variants), so it still makes sense to take precautions like masking when possible (e.g. in healthcare settings).
This will probably have to be repeated indefinitely
Only wearing masks when cases are high is how they become high in the first place, and if people see drops in wastewater levels as an opportunity to stop masking, they are creating the conditions for the next wave -- one in which they might be patient zero for a new variant
@luckytran Are there regional breakdowns? I still won't go to big indoor events, but maybe we can see a baseball game later this month (or at least watch one in our favorite Irish bar that seats about 60).
@LinuxAndYarn@luckytran I look at https://biobot.io/data/covid-19 and https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html for regional trends. The biobot site has data by county also, though that data is quite noisy. If you want to go super deep, the "export data" link from the cdc site above gets you the data in a csv by wastewater treatment plant, you can find the ones in your area and plot them yourself, though it's a bit involved.
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