COVID particles increasing in Palm Beach County wastewaters but no big leaps yet elsewhere in Florida.
Sewage tests from Palm Beach County, the third-most populous in the state, have found an increasing number of coronavirus particles in wastewater since early October, reversing a months-long decline.tested positive for RSV the week of Sept. 11-24, which the Florida Department of Health notes is higher than the same period two years ago, when it was between 1% and 3%.
But, Kiminyo noted, few RSV cases in adults are severe. Like COVID, though, people with underlying health conditions are more susceptible to the worst effects of RSV, he said.Jupiter-area Loxahatchee River District showThere were about 18,000 RSV genetic fragments in the district samples tested Monday by WastewaterSCAN, a nationwide initiative that includes Stanford University. That’s more than double the amount found Sept. 14, when the district started sending wastewater samples for testing.
“There are vaccines for COVID, and there are vaccines for flu,” she said. The latest coronavirus boosters by Moderna and Pfizer, federally approved in late August, were built for offshoots of the coronavirus’ omicron variant. Virtually all COVID infections this year have been caused by omicron and its subvariants.
Vaccines have made COVID infections less severe. And the newest versions of the virus are milder than previous ones. When examining patients recently infected with COVID, Palm Beach County infectious disease specialist Dr. Larry Bush said,"It's hard to distinguish them from other upper respiratory diseases."
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