[Organizers] new CDC wastewater tool

Hi fellow organizers, Leaving this here as a resource for other dance organizers to use in evaluating sickness safety policies, especially for people who focus on CDC recommendations. https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-currentlevels.html CDC recently added a page with trends and a state-by-state map of wastewater numbers, which it extrapolates wastewater numbers vs historical data to estimate. Basically, a state-by-state map of how much there's covid spread. Since public tracking of infection numbers stopped being required, this can be an alternate. Some notes: - Not all areas test/report wastewater numbers, so usefulness will vary state to state. - For what it's worth, this holiday surge has put nearly all of the US population in "high" or "very high". (mirroring trends of the past 3 holiday seasons) - Typically wastewater trends up and down 1-2 weeks ahead of hospital admission trending, due to viral incubation period. - There's flu - The CDC is not including any specific recommendations based off wastewater numbers. Their recommendations page references hospitalization levels. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.h… hospitalization levels can be found, per-county: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#maps_new-admissions-rate-county In dance, Julian Blechner Western Mass dance organizer / caller