During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Province of Ontario, Canada, launched a wastewater surveillance program to monitor SARS-CoV-2, inspired by the early work and successful forecasts of COVID-19 waves in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. This manuscript presents a dataset from January 1, 2021, to...
The environmental fate and persistence of different viruses in wastewater differ depending on the virus family (Silverman and Boehm, 2021). Thus, a single normalization parameter could be unsuitable for all pathogens. As the applicability of WBE has reached beyond COVID-19 and WBE studies on ...
P-1954. Wastewater-Based Surveillance More Accurately Describes Disease Burden Of COVID-19 In Communities with Less Than 60,000 Inhabitants – An Ontario-Wide Study doi:10.1093/ofid/ofae631.2113BACKGROUND. The emergence of COVID-19 in Canada prompted extensive efforts in population-wide surveillance...
The wastewater of a rural community of less than 5000 inhabitants in Eastern Ontario (Canada) were sampled in this study between October 2020 and May 2021 (Fig. 1). The rural community is sewered, with the wastewater flowing into the main pumping station located 1.3 km upstream of a wastewa...
The shift away from a large-scale COVID-19 public health response comes at a time when cases are surging across the province and wastewater levels are the highest they have been in more than a year. In Ottawa, there are currently 11 COVID-19 outbreaks...
Influence of Meteorological Factors on PM Level and COVID-19 Cases Health Implications Due to co-Exposure to PM and COVID-19 Health Risk Assessment Due to the Combination of PM and COVID-19 COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics Opportunity Cost of Lockdown Scope and Long-Term Prevalence of Lockdown...
Another option is to look at the CDC's National Wastewater Surveillance System maps, which show data and trends from efforts to monitor COVID in sewer water in various counties and cities. All of these maps measure something slightly different, they all have limitations and it is possible for...
Tam said that in the last week, case rates, the share of tests coming back positive, and wastewater surveillance are all showing “early indications” that Omicron has peaked nationally. Her comments echoed statements the day before from several provinces, including Alberta, where Premier ...
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has precipitated the present outbreak of COVID-19, a highly infectious respiratory disease. This Collection brings together advances in the tools researchers are developing to combat this pandemic – from methods of detection, to potential treatment – updates relating...
Wastewater management in different localities became one of the means to detect early COVID-19 and prevent its spread in the community. Even though the social distance measure designed by the WHO for influenzas was 1m, different distance measures are employed worldwide: the UK and New Zealand ...