May 22, 2023·edited May 22, 2023Liked by Stephen J Wood
Interestingly, Biobot Analytics, the company that performed early wastewater measurements of SARS-coV-2 concentration, has removed data from early 2020. As recently as March of this year, their data file showed no virus from 2020-01-15 to 2020-02-26 in the Boston area, but those dates have been removed.
Edit: The removal actually occured on 5/8/2023 in git commit 1ce4e2d. I had taken the zero measurements in early 2020 at face value and thought they were evidence against early spread. But apparently the story is more complicated. FWIW, here are the deleted lines:
Interestingly, Biobot Analytics, the company that performed early wastewater measurements of SARS-coV-2 concentration, has removed data from early 2020. As recently as March of this year, their data file showed no virus from 2020-01-15 to 2020-02-26 in the Boston area, but those dates have been removed.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/biobotanalytics/covid19-wastewater-data/master/wastewater_by_county.csv
https://github.com/biobotanalytics/covid19-wastewater-data
Edit: The removal actually occured on 5/8/2023 in git commit 1ce4e2d. I had taken the zero measurements in early 2020 at face value and thought they were evidence against early spread. But apparently the story is more complicated. FWIW, here are the deleted lines:
sampling_week,effective_concentration_rolling_average,region,state,name,fipscode
2020-01-15,0.0,Northeast,MA,"Suffolk County, MA",25025
2020-01-22,0.0,Northeast,MA,"Suffolk County, MA",25025
2020-01-29,0.0,Northeast,MA,"Suffolk County, MA",25025
2020-02-05,0.0,Northeast,MA,"Suffolk County, MA",25025
2020-02-12,0.0,Northeast,MA,"Suffolk County, MA",25025
2020-02-19,0.0,Northeast,MA,"Suffolk County, MA",25025
2020-02-26,0.0,Northeast,MA,"Suffolk County, MA",25025