With the economic and practical limits of medical screening for SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 coming sharply into focus worldwide, scientists are turning now to wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) as a potential tool for assessing and managing the pandemic. We employed computational analysis and modeling to...
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With far lessCOVIDtesting going on, that information becomes even more important. "So, the wastewater is really giving us a lot of good data about what’s happening with this pandemic," said UC Berkeley Infectious Disease Expert Dr. John Swartzberg. Wastewater surveillance analysis can provide ...
In the last 15 days, nearly 60% of wastewater sites monitored by the CDC have reported an increase in the presence of COVID-19 in their samples. Hospitalization data, once the gold standard, now becoming less straightforward For many officials, monitoring virus-related COVID-19 hospitaliz...
VarLOCK: sequencing-independent, rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern for point-of-care testing, qPCR pipelines and national wastewater surveillance Xinsheng Nan , Patrick Hardinge … Tomasz P. Jurkowski Scientific Reports Open Access 27 November 2023 Access options Access Nature and...
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N., M2-C200, P.O. Box 19024, Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA David A. Swan, Holly Janes, Mia Moore, Laura Matrajt, Daniel B. Reeves, Deborah Donnell, Joshua T. Schiffer & Dobromir Dimitrov ...
—A wastewater surveillance program remains a patchwork that cannot yet be counted on for the data needed to understand coming surges. —White House officials say the government is running out of funds for vaccines, treatments and testing.
Special correspondent Cat Wise reports from California, one of the first states to test wastewater for COVID. [View]BBC (26 Nov 2022)“Covid lockdown protest break out in China city after deadly fire”— Fresh protests have broken out in China over its Covid restrictions, after an ...
Another way to keep better track of the pandemic, experts said, is to bolster other types of surveillance, such as wastewater monitoring and collecting hospitalization data. But those have their own drawbacks. Wastewater surveillance remains a patchwork that doesn't cover all areas, and hospitalizati...
Those remaining essential workers include transportation and logistics workers, food service workers, construction workers, finance workers, IT and communications workers, energy workers, media personnel, legal workers, engineers and wastewater workers, ACIP said. And underlying condi...