MWRA is now submitting samples for additional disease targets to the WastewaterSCAN program in addition to our regular testing with Biobot Analytics. View LIVE WastewaterSCAN results Back to top
There is growing research that wastewater sampling can be useful in understanding the extent of COVID-19 infections in communities. Our goal is to supplement, not replace, other testing epidemiology methods. Wastewater testing can be useful when clinical testing is difficult or lacking at a municipa...
Wastewater testing indicates the current wave of COVID-19 peaked in late December with 1.9 million daily infections, the highest since the omicron wave of 2021. Some experts want to maintain and expand wastewater surveillance to stay on top of future waves at state and local levels, even as t...
We used wastewater analysis data to estimate incidence after testing was reduced to a minimum after March 2022. These results imply that data from a large-scale wastewater surveillance system can serve as a good proxy for COVID-19 incidence and for epidemic control....
The University of Arizona is testing sewage to help spot and prevent the spread of outbreaks of coronavirus on campus. Dr. Ian Pepper, a microbiologist and director of the university's Water and Energy Sustainable Technology Center, which conducted the testing, spoke to CBSN about how it can ...
The COVID-19 virus is present in the feces of people infected with it, and this can be detected in wastewater at a sewage treatment plant. The results can indicate the amount of virus in a community. Wastewater testing can not show the number, or the identity, of people who are infected...
The COVID-19 virus is present in the feces of people infected with it, and thiscan be detectedin wastewater at a sewage treatment plant. The results can indicate the amount of virus in a community. Wastewater testing can not show the number, or the identity, of people who are infected ...
Correlation analyses were then performed between the PMMoV-normalized SARS-CoV-2 viral signal in wastewater and the available epidemiological data. 3. Results & discussion During the pairwise comparison of samples collected from both locations at the same time-point, all samples (5/5) from the ...
while others will only do so once they contract symptoms. What’s more, lateral flow tests have been known to return inaccurate results, further skewing the data in a misleading direction. For those reasons, testing wastewater is a powerful tool for quantifying the prevalence of COVID-1...
Rapid testing kits using paper-based devices could be used on-site atwastewater treatment plantsto trace sources and determine whether there are potential COVID-19 carriers in local areas. Dr. Zhugen Yang, Lecturer in Sensor Technology at Cranfield Water Science Institute, said: "In the case of...