You’ve heard this one before: Covid cases are on the rise in the Bay Area again.
New data from Wastewater SCAN—a program that traces levels of viruses and other pathogens in municipal sewershed plans—shows levels of Covid particulate in wastewater are rising in San Francisco’s Oceanside sewershed, which covers much of the city’s western side, including the Sunset and much of the Richmond neighborhoods.
Influenza and Respiratory Syntactical Virus (RSV) levels also appear to be creeping upward at the Oceanside plant, though neither pathogens reached the peaks seen during winter flu season. The city’s Southeast sewershed, which covers the eastern half of San Francisco, did not record the same spike in pathogens, however.