People definitely vary in how much they shed, though thousands of times more than average sounds higher than I’ve seen?
At least with covid during the time when cases were tracked reasonably well there was a pretty close connection between covid levels in municipal wastewater and case rates. For example, see Nationwide Trends in COVID-19 Cases and SARS-CoV-2 RNA Wastewater Concentrations in the United States:
(Blue is wastewater concentration, orange is cases)
People definitely vary in how much they shed, though thousands of times more than average sounds higher than I’ve seen?
At least with covid during the time when cases were tracked reasonably well there was a pretty close connection between covid levels in municipal wastewater and case rates. For example, see Nationwide Trends in COVID-19 Cases and SARS-CoV-2 RNA Wastewater Concentrations in the United States:
(Blue is wastewater concentration, orange is cases)