'I think people can get a little bit too concerned about the height of the peak,' Hoerger says. While CDC data suggest viral activity levels have been similar the last two Decembers, Hoerger explains that the acceleration in COVID activity in 2023 was faster than in 2022, suggesting there will be a higher peak this season. He says his data also show that on the highest day of the current wave, there will be 2 million new COVID cases, which would lend to many more infections than last winter, which had its highest day of about 1.7 million new infections. He estimates that mid-December 2023 to mid-February 2024 will be the peak of the current wave and that 1 in 3 Americans will be infected with COVID during this timeframe. He says his own predictive model indicates cases will continue to rise until mid-February. Hoerger tells that based on the wastewater data collected from Biobot Analytics (which used to provide the CDC its wastewater data), the U.S. It added that wastewater levels 'are currently high and increasing in all regions.' 5 statement that wastewater and test positivity data are both higher than the year before by about 27% and 17% respectively. Skinner did not specify if the current COVID wave is the country's second-largest. 'These levels are much lower than the Omicron wave in early 2022,' he says, adding that JN.1 is the most frequently detected variant in wastewater. We are seeing early evidence of the same timing this year, but we will continue to monitor closely,' Skinner continues. 'Last year, the peak of infections occurred in late December, early January.

6, 2023, to 11.79.ĬDC spokesperson Tom Skinner tells via email that 'COVID 19 in wastewater is currently (at) very high levels across the country.'

15, 2022, was 22.78.) However, the rate dipped for the week ending Jan. (The national rate for the week ending Jan. 30, 2023 is higher than anything seen since January 2022, as far back as the publicly available CDC data goes. A CDC chart of national and regional COVID trends in wastewater shows the national viral activity rate of 12.44 from the week ending Dec.

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