Thread by @DrEricDing

📊Don’t be deceived by low case counts—

📌US has one of the lowest #COVID19 testing rates per capita

📌US testing has fallen substantially

📌Home testing + are almost never counted in official statistics

📌Wastewater shows plateau & reversal.

📌CDC risk levels mainly uses 🏥

2) this is why we need to look beyond just the raw case counts. We have much more home testing that almost never reported and we are closing more mass testing sites around the country. We are running more and more blind.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1505652433690714122

3) Don’t allow others to gaslight you that everything is fine. Lots of dangerous denialists and minimizers will tell you to look away.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1505421995311312896

4) Just look at what is happening in the UK 🇬🇧 right now — and let this sink in— the Us has never dodged any wave that has hit UK first. Think about that. #Ba2 is definitely coming in a month or less.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1505678879830290434

5) Also the CDC “community levels” metric is based partly on hospitalizations which is much much too slow of an indicator. And it’s also seriously flawed because many counties don’t have hospitals for eligible admissions and many hospitals don’t report where their patients live!

https://twitter.com/JasonSalemi/status/1504856548647976963

6) Wastewater is definitely trending in a reversal direction. You can’t escape the reality of wastewater— it’s completely unbiased in every way.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1503923433238933510

7) it doesn’t take rocket science or epidemiology to tell you that there are growing pockets of wastewater increases in the US. It’s a matter of when we see it in the clinical cases, not just “if” anymore with #BA2.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1503469939797151753