It’s unclear to me why the numbers you are report are only absolute numbers. I would expect that there are a bunch of factors that can make the wastewater more or less concentrated and thus have an effect on the reads but that you would want to filter out.
It’s my understanding that when doing influenza vaccines for a session the specific strain of the influenza virus matters a lot. Currently, the dashboard doesn’t seem to answer questions like “How does the dominant Influenza B strain differ today from last year?” and “Did the predictions they make at the beginning this year when they formulated the vaccine for this session actually pick the strains that are now dominant?”
It’s unclear to me why the numbers you are report are only absolute numbers. I would expect that there are a bunch of factors that can make the wastewater more or less concentrated and thus have an effect on the reads but that you would want to filter out.
It’s my understanding that when doing influenza vaccines for a session the specific strain of the influenza virus matters a lot. Currently, the dashboard doesn’t seem to answer questions like “How does the dominant Influenza B strain differ today from last year?” and “Did the predictions they make at the beginning this year when they formulated the vaccine for this session actually pick the strains that are now dominant?”