COVID wastewater closeup showing wild up-and-down behavior on a scale of days and weeks

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 01:05:21 JST Paul Cantrell

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   What am I seeing in that graph that makes me say this?

   COVID wastewater data is •wildly• noisy, which makes it hard to read. It’s full of huge week-to-week fluctuations that look utterly apocalyptic, and appear to mean…nothing.

   I really, really doubt, for example, that COVID cases in the entire state of MN magically spiked •and then receded• by a factor of ~5x over a period of ~2 weeks last May. Look at the yellow line. Whatever that’s showing, I doubt it’s disease trajectory.

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