COVID-19 Levels In California’s Wastewater Exceed Last Summer’s Peak, CDC Says

The Los Angeles Times (7/22, Lin) reports COVID-19 “levels in California’s wastewater now exceed last summer’s peak, an indication of the rapid spread of the super-contagious new FLiRT strains.” The state “has ‘very high’ coronavirus levels in its wastewater – one of 21 states in that category, up from seven the prior week, according to estimates published Friday by the” CDC. That means roughly “155 million people – nearly half of America’s population – live in areas with ‘very high’ coronavirus levels in sewage.”