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Re:Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs by lupire on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:08AM (#31609335)
Meh. Wastewater has everything in it, but not things aren't checked for. Covid is now too broad a term that includes far less dangerous variants.

You need to draw a line between Covid and colds, or else count colds like Covid.

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Re:Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs by anarticle on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:26AM (#31609611)
Biochemist here: the test for wastewater is quantitative PCR, which is specific to COVID. It's not COVID and "other viruses".

Here's the protocol: https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/surveillance/wastewater-sur...

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Re:Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs by AareyBaba on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:18PM (#31613744)
The data matches a spike in actual cases. See https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-cases-and-deaths
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Re:Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs by ryanbrunner on Friday June 03, 2022 @03:11PM (#31612418)
For all intents and purposes, right now COVID in a particular area is either going to be 100% a single variant, or a variant in the process of outcompeting another variant. There hasn't been a situation where there's been equilibrium between multiple variants that I'm aware of.

Also, there is no common variant of COVID that is anywhere near as mild any virus we call "common cold". In the best case (Omicron for a young, boosted individual) it's comparable with influenza in terms of severity.

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