Earlier this year, Dr. Jeremy Faust noticed what he considered a remarkable COVID landmark that came and went with little fanfare.
From early May through early August, COVID was virtually nonexistent in Massachusetts’ waste water. During that roughly three-month period, the virus claimed fewer than 10 lives, a record low over the past six years.
“We literally had, essentially, nearly undetectable levels,” said Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who also researches public health. “This is, honestly, shockingly low and great.”
After that lull, COVID levels are ticking back up in Massachusetts, as they do every fall and
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