cremevax👩🏻💻🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦<p>Hello, it’s the weekly <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/washingtonstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>washingtonstate</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/kingcounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kingcounty</span></a> (that is, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seattle</span></a> and environs) <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wastewater</span></a> toots.</p><p>A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.</p><p>Normally I start with the West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant, but the state site has this week's Sars-CoV2 7-day running average at ... 0.0?!? The same extremely unlikely reading is up at King County's version of the same data, available at <a href="https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/health-safety/disease-illness/respiratory-virus-data" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/hea</span><span class="invisible">lth-safety/disease-illness/respiratory-virus-data</span></a>. This is some sort of hiccup, obviously.</p><p>WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations for Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at <a href="https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistica</span><span class="invisible">l-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater</span></a>. If you go to the page and click "learn more" in the statewide view tab, you can find out lots of details about how these data are calculated and how to interpret them. The dashboard gets updated every Wednesday (generally).</p><p>Note: when the state switched over to new data providers in September, they also removed the previous historical data from the graphical interface. That's because the two providers used different methodologies that made direct comparisons difficult. Unfortunately, it also removed valuable context for interpreting the results. So, keep in mind we're just seeing what happened in September 2023 until now.</p>