COVID Infections Surpass 2020’s First Pandemic Peak

Fortune reports:

U.S. COVID infections are hovering near levels of the pandemic’s first peak in 2020, and approaching the Delta peak of late 2021, according to wastewater surveillance and modeling by forecasters.

Viral wastewater levels are not far behind all of the pandemic’s 2020 peaks except for one—the initial peak of March 2020, which they’ve already surpassed. And they lag just slightly levels seen during the deadly Delta peak of late 2021.

A forecast issued this week by Jay Weiland, a leading COVID modeler, came to the same conclusions. On Thursday, Weiland estimated that 650,000 Americans are becoming infected daily, with 1 in 51 Americans currently infected with COVID.

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#COVID19 levels are so high, they’re hovering near 2020’s initial peak, as the @WHO urges those at high risk to take any booster they can get their hands on, by @ErinMPrater https://t.co/0KMGMXW6Wl via @FortuneMagazine

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