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UCSF's Dr. Bob Wachter Takes Your Covid Questions

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How Do You Determine if There's More COVID in California?

Bob Greene: How do we determine how big or bad a problem COVID is in California and what steps to take behavior wise if it feels like the data are getting less, I don't know, reliable or even reported? He says there's two pieces of data that are publicly available that he thinks are quite helpful. One is number of cases per hundred thousand people per day in your region; other is prevalence of virus in sewage. If wastewater numbers go up, then you should be more careful about eating indoors when it's the only thing to do," Greene says.

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