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by arikr 1277 days ago
See also: https://biobot.io/data/
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Popped in to share this one, it has COVID data on my area while the Verily site doesn't seem to yet.

I've been using wastewater data to adjust my behavior since official testing and reporting is down and under-reporting cases. Detected COVID goes up, I reduce my exposure and remind my vulnerable loved ones. Detected COVID goes back down, I adjust my behavior accordingly.

There are some seriously long delays and gaps in wastewater reporting, though. They only do it in my local area very 6 weeks or so.
Oddly, this site doesn't report for my local counties that are listed as having submitted data to CDC's NWSS (King and Pierce counties in Washington State).

I wonder if the more "popular" counties are pay-walled or something?

EDIT: According to the site, "County Selection: Counties associated with each location were provided by our sampling partners, and correspond to the primary county served by each sampling location. In the county-level section we highlight a subset of counties which had at least 21 weeks of data and whose sampling locations represented at least 10,000 individuals, as well as the primary counties of our sampling partners in the Biobot Network."

So I'm curious what other factors are excluding the largest (by population) counties in Washington?