detecting in the city of boston using wastewater data. again, this is not reflecting test results, this is not reflecting individual people s positive or negative tests, it s just how much covid is in the wastewater in the city s catchment area. and the rise has been so steep, it s almost hard to tell. if you look closely, look at the right side of the screen there. you can see the curve start to sharply bend down in recent days. boston s npr station, wbur, interviewed the epidemiologist that runs the center at harvard that monitors boston s wastewater. he told them, quote, when i refreshed the website and saw it, saw the turn-around in the data, i literally punched the air and let out a hoot because it was something i have been hoping for. it is unambiguously good news. is that recent trend we are seeing in boston, those recent reports from new york, are they reason to punch the hair and hoot? are they reason to feel hopeful about what is to come and how
wastewater levels in boston area. now, we ve talked before on this show about how cities like boston have used wastewater data to track the spread of covid in realtime. look at this graph here today out of boston. this is the amount of covid basically that they are detecting in the city of boston using wastewater data. again, this is not reflecting test results, this is not reflecting individual people s positive or negative tests, it s just how much covid is in the wastewater in the city s catchment area. and the rise has been so steep, it s almost hard to tell. if you look closely, look at the right side of the screen there. you can see the curve start to sharply bend down in recent days. boston s npr station, wbur, interviewed the epidemiologist who runs the center at harvard who monitors boston s wastewater. he told them, quote, when i refreshed the website and saw it, saw the turn-around in the data, i literally punched the air and let out a hoot because it was something i have be
affect hospitalizations, we re about to get huge numbers of new infections, is that the hospitals in much of the country are already being crushed right now, even before massive new omicron infection numbers start hitting everywhere. rhode island emergency room doctors have just put out a statement saying that state s health system, quote, is currently collapsing. quote, no one who is practicing medicine alive in this country right now has ever experienced what we are going through right now. again, that s emergency room physicians in rhode island. national guard s been called out in large number in two additional states today, indiana and ohio getting hundreds of guardsmen and guards women to spell staff in hospitals. one hospital told wbur in boston today that they have a list of 30 hospitals to which they refer their own patients who need care. 30 different hospitals in five
hampshire told wbur in boston today that they have a list of 30 hospitals to which they refer their own patients who need care. 30 different hospitals in five different states. as of today, there is not a single bed available in any of those 30 hospitals in any of those five states. not a single place they can send their own patients. and that s in new england, which has some of the best vaccination rates in the country. even with a minority of people choosing not to get vaccinated, it that unvaccinated group of people stuffing the hospital and that is before this massively, massively new variant spikes case numbers all over the country. again, 70-plus percent of the covid in america now is already oak kron.
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(FILES) In this file photo RN Natalie O Connor loads syringes with the Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine before heading out to see patients at their homes at Hartford HealthCare at Home in Bloomfield, Connecticut on February 12, 2021. - Gary Jackson doesn t want the Covid vaccine even though the virus kills Black people at a starkly higher rate a deep problem experts say the United States must confront in controlling its disastrous outbreak. By some measures, African Americans have died from coronavirus in the highest proportion of any group in the United States, yet are by far the most skeptical of getting the Covid shots shown to be safe and effective in trials.It s a dangerous situation with roots in