Wastewater monitoring may show a clearer picture of virus spread compared to new county data that relies on testing, which shows COVID cases may be easing.
San Diego County reported Thursday COVID-19 infections are down nearly 300 cases from about a week ago, but that does not mean less people are getting infected, California's epidemiologist says.
Part of why the county may not have the most accurate case numbers is because more people are using at-home covid tests, that aren’t always reported it to health officials. “We have many more cases than we are reporting, absolutely,” California Department of Public Health epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan said. “I think our wastewater surveillance shows that as well, that the trends in certain areas are as high as in the middle of the omicron surge.”
Dr. Pan is also deputy director of the Center for Infectious Diseases. The department is monitoring trends through wastewater surveillance which captures the presence of covid in our sewer system.
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