This summer’s wave is shaping up to be particularly long-lasting. California has seen “high” or “very high” levels of coronavirus in its wastewater for the last 10 weeks. In the summer of 2022, California spent 16 weeks in either of those categories, and in...
On January 9, 2024, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released newCoronavirus (COVID-19) isolation and exposure guidance. This guidance is intended to support individuals returning to normal activities sooner. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has ...
Sequencing wastewater may be useful for detecting pathogens and assaying microbial water quality. We concentrated, extracted, and sequenced nucleic acids from 17 composite influent wastewater samples spanning seven southern California wastewater treatment facilities in May 2020. Bacteria were the most ...
Wastewater data for Santa Clara county shows just like the rest of the country, COVID levels are high. "We are seeing high levels in our wastewater in nearly all areas of the county. And that’s our best indication that there is a lot of COVID out there right now," ...
In some areas the latest wave of infections may even be higher than the 2021 omicron wave, which crested at around 6.5 million infections per day, according to Hoerger's analysis. In Santa Clara County, home of California's Silicon Valley, wastewater shows some areas reached their highest inf...
4), a degree of visible agreement could be seen between the SARS-CoV-2 viral signal in wastewater and the reported percent positivity in the geographic region. However, this comparison may not be of significant relevance as the clinical data references a larger geographical zone than the sampled...
Californiain particular appears to be experiencing a notable rise in infections. Thestate’s data suggestshigh levels of coronavirus in wastewater, and Covid has gotten more prevalent there since May. The documented share of Covid tests in California that came back positive hasrisen from around 3%...
San Francisco International to test airplane wastewater for Covid-19 variants Covid-19 By Elizabeth Baker San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in California has launched a Centers for Disease Control and… May 10, 2023 IATA welcomes WHO’s end of Covid-19 public health emergency declaration...
Wastewater as a COVID-19 solution? As Africa grapples with COVID-19, wastewater testing could be an advantage in tackling the pandemic, says Colleen Naughton, a wastewater management expert and an assistant professor at the US-based University of California. ...
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...