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How do we track COVID-19 in 2026?

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A green graphic reads, "The Sick Times: Still Here" and shows a wastewater facility with a mint green filter over it.

As one of the last newsrooms still reporting on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we get a lot of questions about how we track the SARS-CoV-2 virus, from whether or not to trust CDC data to how wastewater data monitoring works.

To answer those questions and assist in finding and interpreting data on COVID-19 and other pathogens, The Sick Times hosted a webinar on April 28, 2026. This episode is an abridged version of that webinar.

Still Here co-hosts Miles W. Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets were joined by Caitlin Rivers, an infectious disease epidemiologist who directs the ⁠Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at Johns Hopkins⁠ and runs the popular newsletter ⁠Force of Infection⁠; and Tea Burns, a disabled trans nurse and first aid instructor with ⁠Action Readiness Collective of NYC (ARC-NYC)⁠.

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