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2024-10-23 07:58:40 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 36CA8AC6F0C2FC4371F3B2F1BA10EA9F27490576C03388DD97359A296C66D658
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Image is from March 2020: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/a-year-in-americas-first-covid-epicenter PMC methods are not peer reviewed. Incorrectly assumes infections proportional to wastewater, but CDC data are normalized to rolling 1-yr baseline. https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/about-data.html#anchor_53209 Three weeks ago, PMC forecast a rise to start by 10 Oct; it did not. Forecasts aren't reliable. https://pmc19.com/data/PMC_COVID_Forecast_Sep30_2024.pdf
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