The data comes as the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has been reporting record numbers of new, confirmed COVID cases each day.
There were about 2,500 RNA copies of COVID per milliliter in the system as of Wednesday, the most recent day data was available. Last winter, the peak was around 1,500 RNA copies per milliliter.
"We don't know yet if this spike could be driven by Thanksgiving activities or if it could be contribution from the new omicron variant," she said. We got an up-close explanation of how one Massachusetts company, Biobot Analytics, has been analyzing wastewater to monitor for coronavirus spikes in the Boston area and around the country.
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