- antigen tests aren't free in the US any more, and nobody reported positives on them even when they were
- as of the middle of last year antigen tests only had a 63% true positive rate against omicron variants (78% against symptomatic cases, which is still not great) and that probably hasn't gone up
- you can't get a PCR test without a prescription now so basically the only people showing up in public test positivity statistics are being hospitalized
if you're in seattle, you want to hit up https://doh.wa.gov/emergencies/covid-19/data-dashboard#WasteWater and set the code of the water treatment plant to BWT (the Brightwater treatment plant, up in Bothell)
