COVID-19 Virus Levels in Wastewater Have Dropped, According to Analysts

CDC officials have said that 40 to 80 percent of people with COVID-19 shed viral RNA in their feces.

Take home COVID-19 self-testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which provides city residents four free tests per day, are seen in this illustration on Jan. 11, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Wastewater COVID levels have shown a decline in recent weeks while the number of hospital admissions due to infections have seen an uptick.

The levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 infection, has dropped by 5 percent in the two weeks between Aug. 30 and Sept. 13, according to data from Biobot Analytics, a platform that tracks COVID-19 through wastewater. The presence of the virus rose in the Northeast, Midwest, and West, but declined in the South.