the wastewater data and to the SentiSurv data of phase I (bold orange). In the following, we will also use the terms adjust, calibrate or fit as synonyms for adapt. One state variable in our model is the proportioniof infectious persons. This number cannot be measured directly but we as...
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...
"While COVID-19 is still circulating across the country, current disease activity indicators, from daily reported cases to laboratory test positivity, indicated decreasing transmission in many areas," Tam said in a press conference, adding that wastewater data are showing signs of a potential plateau...
Wastewater surveillance provides crucial COVID data, but also privacy concerns Throughout the pandemic, wastewater surveillance and analysis was a key tool in monitoring and measuring the amount of virus in communities. But some experts caution that the data collected could also lead to privacy concer...
Gerba CP, Pepper IL (2009) Wastewater Treatment and Biosolids Reuse. Environ Microbiol:503–530. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-370519-8.00024-9 Ghinai I, McPherson TD, Hunter JC, Kirking HL, Christiansen D, Joshi K, Rubin R, Morales-Estrada S, Black SR, Pacilli M, Fricchione ...
absenteeism.Associations strongest at schools with enclosed architectureOne percent increase in logeWW SARS-CoV-2 associated with a 1.4% student absence rate.For resource limited schools, student absenteeism can be a proxy for clinical testing.Recommend wastewater monitoring coupled with appropriate ...
In contrast, remote communities in the Northwest Territories of Canada have implemented wastewater surveillance to monitor the communities for COVID-19 viral signal (Government of Northwest Territories, 2021), despite the low population of the geographic area (<45,000). Having clear guidelines, ...
Federal and municipal governments in North America, Europe and Australia began lifting basic protections like vaccine and mask mandates, winding down public testing, ending contact tracing and withholding critical public health data, like case counts, hospitalisation numbers, wastewater results and even th...
This work provides an overview of the different environmental effects of COVID-19 in a distinct approach, considering the different elements of the environment, i.e., air, water resources, wastewater, and solid waste. The work summarizes the literature results for the environmental effects worldwid...
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...