Kaplan, Peccia, and Yale student coauthors Alessandro Zulli and Marcela Sanchez use wastewater data to calculate the cumulative COVID-19 incidence rate in New Haven and present a formula that would allow other municipalities to do the same. Their results suggest that nearly a third of people in...
PROTECTING PIPE PRIVACY: HOW SAMPLING WASTEWATER AND UTILIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA TO CONTROL THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 MAY VIOLATE THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENTMETZGER, EMY E.Boston College Law Review
COVID-19emergency room visitsare "low" or "minimal" in nearly all states, after this year's latesummer waveof the virus. Levels of the virus inwastewaterare "minimal" in all regions, compared to "high" levels around this time last year. "Does that mean that there was enough immunity b...
There is no direct evidence, but this process of the coronavirus accumulating mutationshas been observed happeningin an individual with HIV who wasn’t responding to covid-19 treatment. The researchers who discovered omicron havecalled for efforts to tackle HIV to be stepped up. What’s th...
Researchers have linked wastewater samples to the number of positive COVID-19 tests a week later, suggesting health officials could get an early glimpse at infection trends. Some health departments also have used sewage to look for variants. New York City, for example, detected signals of the ...
"There are so many ports of call, people and small businesses that would love to have the cruise business," she says, especially after the economic losses caused by COVID-19. "I'll bet everyone will be happy to welcome back any kind of business they can get," she says. Allison ...
After not knowing how many COVID-19 cases were going unreported in spring 2020, we were then asking how many people lacked the tests they needed. Even now, two years into the pandemic, this is still a challenge because the U.S. does not provide demographic data on testing, Murray said....
The CDC plans to ditch its Covid five-day isolation policy in favor of a policy that is based on symptoms. The new policy would allow people to stop isolating once their symptoms are mild and they’ve been fever-free for at least 24 hours without medication. (Washington Post) ...
which is a drop in the bucket as far as government spending is concerned. And the environmental mitigation would be huge if we're stopping these fibers from even getting to a wastewater treatment facility, that's the best option. So until we get legislation in the United States, hopefully,...
The term biofilm was first used in 1975 from the visualisation of biofilms in a trickling wastewater filter and it described the microbial community that adheres to both abiotic and biotic surfaces [1]. Microbial biofilms are the most prevalent form of natural ecosystems [2,3] and often compose...