As students return to the classroom and respiratory illness season begins, Hochul is encouraging vaccination. The state tracks COVID through wastewater surveillance and says right now, cases are down from the summertime spike. "We do tend to see, when the weather changes, a seasonal uptick in i...
COVID wastewater levels drop in cities across Saskatchewan Saskatchewan’s biggest cities saw a decrease in COVID-19 in their wastewater. The University of Regina reported a significant decrease for Regina compared to last week and is now nearing the levels from the beginning of the Omicron wave....
That is, the more cases of COVID-19 that there are in a municipal area, the higher the levels of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material to be found in the sewage flowing into the wastewater treatment plant. The researchers in both countries found that the virus could be detected in sewage before t...
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Epidemiological modeling confirms Delta's advantages of higher transmissibility in Manhattan and Queens, but not the Bronx; wastewater analysis suggests underdetection of cases in the Bronx. The Alpha variant had slightly faster growth but a lower carrying capacity compared to Iota and Delta in all ...
Thus, the purpose of this study was to conduct a thorough evaluation of how the social distancing and shutdown measures associated with COVID-19 government-backed shutdowns impacted the air quality in NYC. In particular, we were interested in the impact of the shutdowns on particulate matter...
SARS-CoV-2 viruses could survive for hours to several days in municipal wastewater (Carducci et al., 2020), and have been detected along the wastewater reticulation network (Ahmed et al., 2020) and in both influents and treated effluents of wastewater treatment plants (Haramoto et al., 2020...
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"Deer regularly interact with humans and are commonly found inhumanenvironments—near our homes, pets, wastewater and trash," study authorXiu-Feng Wan, an expert onzoonotic diseaseat the University of Missouri, said in a statement. "The potential for SARS-CoV-2, or any zoonotic disease, to ...