Wastewater data suggest that the recent uptick in Covid cases may have peaked, at least in some areas.

Biobot Analytics, a company that tracks wastewater samples at 257 sites nationwide, said that the current average Covid levels across the United States are approximately 5% lower than they were last week.

“All fingers crossed,” Cristin Young, a Biobot epidemiologist said, “this wave is plateauing and may be declining.”…

“What we’re seeing right now is a kind of ‘flattening out,'” said Marlene Wolfe, an assistant professor of environmental health at Emory University and program director for WastewaterSCAN. “We haven’t really seen a true downturn happen yet.”