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   J Miller (jmmaok@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 00:33:56 JST J Miller

   • Paul Cantrell
   • Mark Kornblum

   @mkornblum @inthehands

   Public health messaging is always a balance between rigor and what people will understand, what will motivate the correct action.

   Also, the CDC could put more science into validating that measure. There are peer reviewed studies that make these estimates now. They compare wastewater levels to times and places where other methods were used to estimate prevalence.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 00:33:56 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Mark Kornblum

     @JMMaok @mkornblum

     Yeah, I’m also frustrated at how slowly research trickles into public health policy. Super tough problem.

     I suspect in this case the problem they’re actually trying to solve is that all the wastewater sites have different methods and yield different numbers, and there’s not a peer reviewed study for every single site. So in trying to normalize them against each •other•, they risk a bad normalization of the overall result.