{"id":7312,"date":"2024-08-13T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7312"},"modified":"2024-08-13T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T22:36:16","slug":"cdc-says-covid-is-at-very-high-activity-levels-in-some-us-states-see-latest-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/13\/cdc-says-covid-is-at-very-high-activity-levels-in-some-us-states-see-latest-data\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC says COVID is at &#8216;very high&#8217; activity levels in some US states: See latest data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2024\/08\/13\/covid-surge-cdc-data-high-activity-levels\/74750759007\/\">USA Today<\/a> Recent data from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)<\/a>&nbsp;shows that over half of the United States have reported &#8220;very high&#8221; levels of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2024\/08\/02\/kp-311-covid-variant-symptoms-cases-cdc-data\/74646042007\/\">COVID-19<\/a>&nbsp;activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using wastewater or sewage, the CDC tests the water to see if there are any traces of an infectious disease within a community, the government agency says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data collected on Aug. 9 by the CDC showed that 27 states have reported &#8220;very high&#8221; levels of wastewater viral activity nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the overall numbers of the states and territories that have reported wastewater viral activity levels as of Aug. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2024\/08\/13\/covid-surge-cdc-data-high-activity-levels\/74750759007\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"y XP Xwj o b \">y XP Xwj o b <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today Recent data from the&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)&nbsp;shows that over half of the United States have reported &#8220;very high&#8221; levels of&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;activity. Using wastewater or sewage, the CDC tests the water to see if there are any traces of an infectious disease within a community, the government agency says. Data collected on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7313,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312\/revisions\/7313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}