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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...
Response to COVID-19: building resilience through water and wastewater management in Ghana We used the water and sanitation system approach to understand the effects of COVID-19 mitigation measures on the WASH system. Data were collected through surveys, stakeholder engagements, and document analysis...
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“second wave” of outbreak, it is time for local municipalities to reprioritize their capital expenditure on upgrading aging or poorly functioning wastewater infrastructure, not only for the long-lasting benefits of betterwastewater management, but to reduce the immediate risks of pathogen transmission ...
Region 2 contains NYC (Fig. 1), which is the most populated city in both NY State and the US. NYC contains a population of approximately 8.4 million people and has a population density of 27,750 people per square mile (New York State Department of Health, 2011; NYCdata, 2018). This ...
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 ...
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