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
There has been no testing of wastewater for COVID-19 so far in the Interior Health region. But a testing site will be set up within the next few months at an undecided location, according to Natalie Prystajecky, an environmental microbiologist at the BC Centre for Disease Control. The CO...
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 o...
New Covid-19 infections areno longer trackedor reported as closely as they were during the public health emergency. Instead, US officials now focus on testing the contents of Americans’ wastewater to keep tabs on the virus. To identify virus levels andlarger trends, the US Centers for Disease...
(EGLE) and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) created a $10 million grant for a three-month pilot program this fall to fund local public health department efforts to coordinate with counties, universities, and other institutions across the state on COVID-19 wastewater ...
To better understand COVID-19's spread during the pandemic, public health officials have expanded wastewater surveillance. These efforts track SARS-CoV-2 levels and health risks among most people, but they miss people who live without shelter, a population particularly vulnerable to severe infection...
Pruthvi Kilaru, a former project manager for wastewater surveillance at Syracuse University, holds a wastewater sample from Syracuse’s surveillance program monitoring residence halls for the presence of COVID-19. Credit: Syracuse University Wastewater surveillance of infectious diseases is expected work fo...
A national wastewater surveillance program offers a cost-effective approach to track Covid-19 across the majority of the U.S. population.
California. I was lucky enough to participate in SASEA. The program uses a robot to test wastewater for the virus that causes COVID-19. We named our robot Harry Botter. It has tubes that go into sewer drains to bring up wastewater for laboratory testing. It was really cool to see the...
Study author Xuan Lin, a PhD student in civil engineering is holding a frozen wastewater RNA sample that is used for sequencing. Credit: Paul Joseph Wastewater testing can accurately and rapidly identify levels of COVID-19 infections in the community, including the rise of variants of concern, ...