cremevax👩🏻💻🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦<p>Hi, 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>I usually start with the West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant, but the last value in the table, for 4/8, is 0.0. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to live in a world with zeroed-out readings for the Sars-CoV-2 concentration levels were an actual thing! And to be totally fair, the readings from 4/6 are, historically speaking, quite low. But 0.0? I think that's a glitch.</p><p>Hardcore wastewater nerds might recall that King County runs their very own Sars-CoV-2 dashboard for the same treatment plants. Alas, the county's dashboard has the same problem. I'm just going to skip WSPT's graph this week.</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). The Department of Health is here on the feditubes, at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@WADeptHealth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WADeptHealth</span></a></span>.</p>