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Coronavirus testing through nasal swabs has become standard practice for trying to contain the global pandemic. But some municipalities and colleges in the U.S. are taking it one step further – testing fecal matter in wastewater to try and get ahead of outbreaks. CGTN’s Kar...
SARS-CoV-2COVID-19wastewater surveillancesewershedresidential collegeMany colleges and universities utilized wastewater surveillance testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA as a tool to help monitor and mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic on campuses across the USA during the 2020鈥 2021 academic year. We sought to...
by Bonnie Stevens and Kerry Bennett,Northern Arizona University Credit: Northern Arizona University With the ongoing challenges associated with large-scale testing for COVID-19—including test kit shortages, stringent testing criteria and the inherent limitations of current tracking systems on mildly sympto...
What are the advantages of testing wastewater for COVID-19? Of course, wastewater surveillance is useless for identifying individual cases of COVID-19. Neither can it give an exact prediction of how many people have been infected. What it can do, however, is allow the relevant authori...
Wastewater testing is an effective way to identify new cases of COVID-19 in nursing homes and other congregate living settings, and it may be particularly useful for preventing outbreaks in college dormitories, a new University of Virginia study finds.
Working together, testing wastewater, we can eradicate this pandemic and help prevent the next Wastewater epidemiology can save lives by monitoring and mitigating current COVID-19 cluster outbreaks and the evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants. It can also be utilized to identify other pathogens of endemic ...
Dr Cindy Friedman, chief of CDC’s Travelers’ Health Branch, commented, “As we know from the Covid-19 pandemic, pathogens can spread quickly across the globe, impacting travel and trade. Testing of airplane wastewater can provide early detection of newCovid-19variants ...
Many researchers are now starting to use wastewater testing to monitor COVID-19 infection rates. Routine wastewater surveillance might be an efficient, non-invasive tool to detect new COVID-19 infections, however, complex wastewater samples present major challenges for testing laboratories due to the...
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 ...