BOSTON (CBS) -- Wastewater is helping to track the presence of COVID-19 in Massachusetts. "COVID-19 is shed into feces which makes its way into the sewer and eventually the wastewater treatment plants," said Kyle McElroy, a research scientist at BioBot. The Massachusetts Water Resources Aut...
Test results from MWRA’s pilot study to track wastewater at the Deer Island Treatment Plant for indicators of COVID-19 infection are posted on this site. Samples are analyzed daily byBiobot Analytics, a wastewater epidemiology company. Sample results will generally be posted 2-3 working days af...
Wastewater testing indicates the current wave of COVID-19 peaked in late December with 1.9 million daily infections, the highest since the omicron wave of 2021. Some experts want to maintain and expand wastewater surveillance to stay on top of future waves at state and local levels, even as t...
July 19, 2022 This retrospective hospital-based study examines all SARS-CoV-2 nosocomial infections in 1 US health care system during the Omicron surge vs an earlier wave when wild-type variants predominated. Massachusetts Data on Excess Mortality During the Delta and Omicron Waves of COVID-19 ...
The knowledge of the detection and survival of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and hospital wastewater were described to understand the different routes of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, which is also useful to avoid the outbreak of CoV-19. In addition, disinfection technologies used commonly for deactivation ...
Model adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, annual household income, health insurance, previous COVID-19 infection, and HHS region. § Health and human services regions (HHS) were defined as the following: Region 1 – Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhod...
Nowcasting (Short-Term Forecasting) of COVID-19 Hospitalizations Using Syndromic Healthcare Data, Sweden, 2020. Emerging Infect. Dis. 28, 564–571 (2022). Article Google Scholar Galani, A. et al. SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance data can predict hospitalizations and ICU admissions. Sci. ...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has exceeded 627 million, with over 6.5 million deaths, data from the World Health Organization shows. The Chinese mainland recorded 465 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, with 409 attributed to local transmissions and 56 from overseas, data fr...
Racial Segregation, Testing Site Access, and COVID-19 Incidence Rate in Massachusetts, USA. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020, 17(24). Covid-19 cases by geography of residence. [https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/community_epidemiology/dc/2019-nCoV/status/COVID...
Wastewater treatment plants received more attention during the pandemic, since the spread of SARS-CoV-2 through excrement has been observed in Massachusetts, USA; Southeast Queensland, Australia; Milan, Italy; Valencia, Spain; Amsterdam, Netherland; and Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan (Lodder and Husman...