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.html

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