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Michael Hoerger

Michael Hoerger

Oct 8, 2026

7:14
So what are you seeing in the wastewater data that people might not realize or understand? And can you explain what it is?
7:21
Sure.
7:22
So in the early pandemic, through early 2022, we still had pretty good testing-based surveillance systems because testing was widely available, reporting was happening, but as testing fell off, then reporting fell off, And those sorts of numbers essentially became meaningless.
7:43
And, you know, in spring of 2022, I was really excited that COVID levels were low.
7:49
But I was basing that off of the reported testing numbers.
7:53
And fortunately, somebody on social media clued me into wastewater monitoring and said, Mike, levels are not low.
7:59
They are actually rising as the B.A.2 wave is picking up.

16 MINS LATER

23:38
Can you talk a little bit about what kind of harmful implications it has to continue to get repeated infections for adults as well as children? Sure.

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