Coronavirus: Experts warn potential for Covid-19 to spread through sewage ‘must not be neglected’ by researchers
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Experts warn potential for Covid-19 to spread through sewage ‘must not be neglected’ by researchers

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The potential for coronavirus to spread through sewage “must not be neglected” in efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, environmental biologists have warned. On Tuesday, a separate research team at Bangor University said analysing sewage could help health officials to predict a second peak of coronavirus in the UK up to two weeks before people become symptomatic. Now, Professor Richard Quilliam, from the University of Stirling, has warned in a paper for Environment International that the sewage system itself could also pose a transmission risk for the virus. The research team said a lack of testing had made it “difficult” to predict the scale of the potential spread and the implications of the virus arriving at wastewater treatment works.

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This was a ‘prime weekend’ for COVID spread in California. Why experts see a ‘real risk’ ahead
4 months ago

This was a ‘prime weekend’ for COVID spread in California. Why experts see a ‘real risk’ ahead

LA Times  

With COVID remaining at stubbornly high levels in California, some doctors are warning that transmission could again accelerate following the busy Labor Day holiday weekend — potentially prolonging a summer wave that has already proved more intense and enduring than some experts had anticipated. And with many California schoolchildren having already returned to school, “this is, unfortunately, a prime weekend …

These charts show COVID-19’s summer surge in the US
55 years ago

These charts show COVID-19’s summer surge in the US

Associated Press  

COVID-19 hasn’t gone away, and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests it’s on the upswing around the country. “We’ve seen these summer increases every summer that COVID-19 has been with us,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a Johns Hopkins University infectious disease physician. “What’s different about these cases this summer vs. prior summers is that they don’t …

COVID-19 makes a wintertime comeback
1 year ago

COVID-19 makes a wintertime comeback

Hindustan Times  

Germany is sniffling and coughing again. "We no longer see severe cases," he said, adding just one patient, aged 94, had to go to the hospital due to COVID-19. With as much as 10% of the country sick, according to Germany's Robert Koch Institute for public health, offices and services are struggling to stay open. Other forms of PCR testing …

Shocking new British research show Covid-19 CAN be spread by infected surfaces
1 year, 8 months ago

Shocking new British research show Covid-19 CAN be spread by infected surfaces

Daily Mail  

British researchers have discovered that Covid-19 may be spread via surfaces after all. In the early days of the pandemic, a lack of concrete knowledge about how the virus spread saw widespread use of antibacterial wipes on surfaces and sanitiser gels to keep hands clean. But a new study by scientists at Imperial College London suggests surfaces can still hold …

CDC could test SEWAGE from planes to track new Covid variants
2 years ago

CDC could test SEWAGE from planes to track new Covid variants

Daily Mail  

Health officials are considering sampling sewage from international airliners to track Covid variants entering the US. Health officials are considering sampling sewage from international airliners to track Covid variants entering the U. Pictured: Travelers walk with their luggage at the arrival hall of the Hong Kong International Airport on December 30 Italy India, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia and Japan have …

Wastewater testing, vital in COVID-19 tracking, could help identify monkeypox spread
2 years, 4 months ago

Wastewater testing, vital in COVID-19 tracking, could help identify monkeypox spread

LA Times  

People wait in line to get a monkeypox vaccine at St. John’s Well Child & Family Center in Los Angeles. While both Los Angeles and San Francisco have seen a rapid rise in monkeypox cases in recent weeks, the totals are still only a fraction of each county’s population: about 600 in San Francisco among fewer than 1 million residents …

Wastewater data shows big coronavirus spike in San Diego
2 years, 5 months ago

Wastewater data shows big coronavirus spike in San Diego

LA Times  

San Diego’s latest wastewater numbers show that the region is experiencing a massive increase in coronavirus transmission driven by BA.5, the subvariant now causing concern worldwide. Updated Thursday by the SEARCH Coalition, a group of local research labs led by UC San Diego and Scripps Research, wastewater testing detected 15.5 million coronavirus copies per liter of wastewater sampled at the …

Wastewater analysis can help predict virus breakout faster
2 years, 5 months ago

Wastewater analysis can help predict virus breakout faster

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 20, 2022 18:20 IST The Tata Institute for Genetics and Society in Bengaluru is standardising a set of protocols that can be used by municipalities across India for effectively monitoring pathogens in wastewater. Speaking to Frontline, Dr Rakesh Mishra, Director, TIGS, explained that wastewater analysis “has complemented routine diagnostic surveillance by capturing near real-time virus circulation at …

Experts worry about how US will see next Covid-19 surge coming
2 years, 9 months ago

Experts worry about how US will see next Covid-19 surge coming

India Today  

As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S. — and wondering how long it will take to detect. Despite disease monitoring improvements over the last two years, they say, some recent developments don’t bode well: —As more people take rapid COVID-19 tests at home, fewer people …

Coronavirus Becomes 90% Less Infectious Within 20 Minutes of Being Airborne, Reveals UK Study
2 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus Becomes 90% Less Infectious Within 20 Minutes of Being Airborne, Reveals UK Study

News 18  

A groundbreaking new study that attempts to find how the deadly coronavirus survives in exhaled air has revealed that the virus becomes 90 per cent less infectious within 20 minutes of becoming airborne therefore losing most of its ability to infect after the first five minutes. While conducting the study, the researchers developed an apparatus to generate virus-containing particles and …

Sewage is the latest disease detection tool for Covid-19 – and more
3 years, 4 months ago

Sewage is the latest disease detection tool for Covid-19 – and more

CNN  

KHN — Since reopening campus at the University of California-San Diego last summer, university officials have relied on the tried-and-true public health strategies of testing and contact tracing. Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images Researchers have high hopes for this sludgy new data stream, which they say can alert public health officials to trends in infections and doesn’t depend on …

Imagine COVID-19 in a world with water and sanitation for all
3 years, 4 months ago

Imagine COVID-19 in a world with water and sanitation for all

Al Jazeera  

What would the pandemic’s impact be on a world where every person has access to clean water and soap? Now, imagine that the world being struck by this virus has already met Sustainable Development Goal 6 on ensuring availability of water and sanitation for all, without discrimination on any grounds. The 1.8 billion people that previously used or worked in …

Coronavirus more likely to spread indoors through maskless interaction: Study
3 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus more likely to spread indoors through maskless interaction: Study

India TV News  

Speaking in indoor spaces without wearing a mask poses the greatest risk of spreading SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to others, a study has found. The research, published in the Journal of Internal Medicine on Tuesday, describes how different sized respiratory droplets emitted while speaking have a range of sizes, and can carry different amounts of virus. "When the …

Covid-19 prevention measures are keeping diseases like chickenpox at bay
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 prevention measures are keeping diseases like chickenpox at bay

Live Mint  

The disinfecting and hand-washing that became common during the Covid-19 pandemic have also served as powerful tools against a host of childhood ailments such as chickenpox, stomach viruses and strep throat, recent data suggest. “We’ve seen a dramatic decline in the numbers," said Rana El Feghaly, a pediatrician and director of clinical services at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, …

Covid lockdowns reduced bacterial diseases spread: Lancet
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid lockdowns reduced bacterial diseases spread: Lancet

India TV News  

National lockdowns and public health campaigns introduced at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic have reduced the transmission of deadly invasive bacteria that cause respiratory infections -- potentially saving thousands of lives, according to a large study published in The Lancet Digital Health on Friday. The study led by Oxford University researchers showed that all countries saw a significant and …

Covid is airborne, scientists say. Now authorities think so too
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid is airborne, scientists say. Now authorities think so too

Live Mint  

A quiet revolution has permeated global health circles. A “paradigm shift is needed on the scale that occurred when Chadwick’s Sanitary Report in 1842 led the British government to encourage cities to organize clean water supplies and centralized sewage systems,” they wrote. “Professor Morawska’s contribution, on the background of world-leading expertise in aerosol science, made a real impact by forcing …

Covid-appropriate Behaviour, Vaccination Main Shields Against All Mutants, Future Waves: Experts
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-appropriate Behaviour, Vaccination Main Shields Against All Mutants, Future Waves: Experts

News 18  

With the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the country and concerns being raised about a possible third wave, experts caution that the next wave could be less severe if people keep following Covid-appropriate behaviour and a large portion of the population is vaccinated. K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, had said on Wednesday last week that the third …

Trinity College research finds why COVID 19 is to hard to treat
3 years, 8 months ago

Trinity College research finds why COVID 19 is to hard to treat

India TV News  

Researchers at the Trinity College Dublin showed that a comprehensive review into what we know about Covid 19 and the way it functions suggests that the virus has a unique infectious profile, which explains why it can be so hard to treat and why some people experience a long struggle with the virus, and even after the virus is technically …

Opinion: Now the CDC wants to shut down ‘hygiene theater’
3 years, 8 months ago

Opinion: Now the CDC wants to shut down ‘hygiene theater’

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Sure, the “high-touch” surfaces, like doorknobs and faucet handles, need attention – and in households with a Covid-19-positive individual, disinfecting surfaces in the house can lead to lower viral transmission rates – but the rest, …

Covid-19: Still worried about deep cleaning? You may take it easy now
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19: Still worried about deep cleaning? You may take it easy now

India Today  

A look at the Covid-19 situation in India at this time last year appears to be a tale from an ancient era. Houses, offices, shared vehicles, religious places, shops and other community places were recommended to go for deep cleaning to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Goldman called the deep cleaning guideline to prevent spread of Covid-19 an “exaggerated risk” …

What we know and don't know about Covid-19
3 years, 10 months ago

What we know and don't know about Covid-19

BBC  

What we know and don't know about Covid-19 Jaafar Ashtiyeh / Getty Images Over the past year, BBC Future has aimed to go deeper into the science behind the pandemic as it evolved. Learn about handwashing: Joaquin Sarmiento/ Getty Images It's not yet clear what the social impact of the pandemic will be in the long term The virus affects …

New playbook for Covid-19 protection emerges after year of study, missteps
3 years, 11 months ago

New playbook for Covid-19 protection emerges after year of study, missteps

Live Mint  

Scientists are settling on a road map that can help critical sectors of the economy safely conduct business, from meatpacking plants to financial services, despite the pandemic’s continued spread. “We have to still deal with ‘the right now.’ We’ve zeroed in on this set of controls that we know work," said Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings Program at …

Sewage testing is no magic bullet in our fight against COVID-19. But it can help
4 years, 1 month ago

Sewage testing is no magic bullet in our fight against COVID-19. But it can help

ABC  

We're often hearing alerts for different areas after traces of coronavirus are found in the wastewater, or sewage. Wastewater from a suburban area may contain mainly household effluent, whereas a sample from a more industrial area could contain various chemicals that may interfere with detecting the viral RNA. Once traces of SARS-CoV-2 show up in wastewater, it's a likely indication …

Covid-19 Spread Easier in Indoors, Winter Perfect Set-up for Contagion: Dr Vivek Murthy
4 years, 1 month ago

Covid-19 Spread Easier in Indoors, Winter Perfect Set-up for Contagion: Dr Vivek Murthy

News 18  

It is easier for coronavirus to spread indoors than outdoors as people stay inside their homes during winter which is a perfect set-up for the contagion, according to Dr Vivek Murthy, the top Indian-American advisor to President-elect Joe Biden on COVID-19. The 43-year-old former US surgeon general, who co-chairs the COVID-19 advisory board of Biden, told Fox News on Sunday …

COVID-19 sewage testing helping guide coronavirus testing as Australia tries to stop the spread
4 years, 1 month ago

COVID-19 sewage testing helping guide coronavirus testing as Australia tries to stop the spread

ABC  

Sudhi Payyappat admits it's not the most glamorous job. Mr Payyappat said testing wastewater for COVID-19 was a "difficult" process. Inside the lab Mr Payyappat said hydrochloric acid was added to the 100ml sample to bring the pH level "down to 3". Sewage testing making 'strong correlation' Australian National University microbiology professor Peter Collignon said sewage testing was equivalent to …

UK tests sewage to provide early warning for COVID-19 spread
4 years, 2 months ago

UK tests sewage to provide early warning for COVID-19 spread

India TV News  

Taking a step further to control the spread of coronavirus infection, the United Kingdom government is working on detecting traces of COVID-19 virus in sewage to provide an early warning for local outbreaks. “Monitoring and sampling wastewater offer another tool to help us identify outbreaks early on – helping NHS Test and Trace and local authorities target hotspots quickly and …

UK is Now Predicting Whether Coronavirus Can Break Out in a Locality by Testing their Sewage
4 years, 2 months ago

UK is Now Predicting Whether Coronavirus Can Break Out in a Locality by Testing their Sewage

News 18  

A UK government-led project is working on detecting traces of coronavirus in sewerage to provide an early warning for local outbreaks and sharing the data with the official National Health Service Test and Trace network as part of efforts to control the spread of infections. Monitoring and sampling wastewater offer another tool to help us identify outbreaks early on helping …

COVID-19 myth-busting: Five things you should know
4 years, 2 months ago

COVID-19 myth-busting: Five things you should know

Al Jazeera  

From water transmission, bleach and antibiotics to weather, clothes and shoes, we look at some common coronavirus misconceptions and how to stop their spread. In a recent WHO Q&A, Briand explained: “If you swim in a swimming pool or in a pond, you cannot get COVID-19 through water, but what can happen is if you go to a swimming pool, …

One new case of coronavirus reported in Queensland, as virus detected in Townsville sewage
4 years, 2 months ago

One new case of coronavirus reported in Queensland, as virus detected in Townsville sewage

ABC  

Queensland Health is investigating after traces of coronavirus were found in Townsville's sewage, as the state records one new case in the past 24 hours. Queensland COVID-19 snapshot: Confirmed cases so far: 1,386 Confirmed cases so far: 1,386 Deaths: 6 Deaths: 6 Tests conducted: 2,042,714 Tests conducted: 2,042,714 Active cases: 38 Latest information from Queensland Health. " The state's chief …

Covid-19 could spread by airborne transmission: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19 could spread by airborne transmission: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Hindustan Times  

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in an updated guidance on Monday said COVID-19 can spread through airborne transmission, a month after it took down a similar warning. Aerosols lingering in the air could be a major source of COVID-19 transmission, a group of U.S. scientists warned in an unrelated open letter published in medical journal Science on Monday. …

The CDC says the coronavirus can spread through tiny airborne particles after all
4 years, 3 months ago

The CDC says the coronavirus can spread through tiny airborne particles after all

LA Times  

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged Monday that the coronavirus can spread through microscopic respiratory particles known as aerosols that float in the air for minutes or even hours before being inhaled. On its website, the CDC said that even people who followed social distancing guidelines have been infected through this type of transmission — and added …

CDC acknowledges risk of coronavirus aerosols in new guidelines, then reverses course
4 years, 3 months ago

CDC acknowledges risk of coronavirus aerosols in new guidelines, then reverses course

LA Times  

New federal guidelines that acknowledged the role of aerosols in the spread of COVID-19 were removed Monday from the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said they had been posted by mistake. Read the CDC’s draft guidance on the role of coronavirus aerosols in the spread of COVID-19 These are the guidelines about COVID-19 spread that …

Sewage research shows increased Covid particles in Amsterdam, The Hague
4 years, 3 months ago

Sewage research shows increased Covid particles in Amsterdam, The Hague

NL Times  

The increase in coronavirus infections in parts of the Netherlands is also reflected in sewage, according to periodical sewage research by public health institute RIVM. While no coronavirus particles were found in the sewage at most test locations in August, clear increases were found in Amsterdam, The Hague, and Almere, the health agency said on Wednesday. The RIVM conducted their …

Evidence Suggests Covid-19 Spreads Through Saliva, Respiratory Secretions of Infected People: Ashwini Chobey
4 years, 3 months ago

Evidence Suggests Covid-19 Spreads Through Saliva, Respiratory Secretions of Infected People: Ashwini Chobey

News 18  

Minister of State for Health Ashwini Kumar Choubey on Tuesday informed the Rajya Sabha that current evidence, according to WHO, suggests that transmission of coronavirus occurs primarily through direct, indirect, or close contact with infected people through saliva and respiratory secretions. "Airborne transmission of the virus can occur in healthcare settings where specific medical procedures, called aerosol generating procedures, generate …

Aerosols sprayed from flushing a public urinal can spread COVID-19, a new study found
4 years, 4 months ago

Aerosols sprayed from flushing a public urinal can spread COVID-19, a new study found

Firstpost  

When men use urinals, aerosols can reach their thigh within 5.5 seconds as compared to the toilet flush, which takes 35 seconds to reach slightly higher. The simulations performed by the scientists revealed that the trajectory of the tiny particles ejected by flushing a urinal “manifests an external spread type, with more than 57 per cent of the particles travelling …

COVID-19: Flush of a urinal causes coronavirus-laden particles to 'climb violently' into the air
4 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19: Flush of a urinal causes coronavirus-laden particles to 'climb violently' into the air

Daily Mail  

The flush of a urinal causes coronavirus-laden particles to 'climb violently' into the air, a study found, with experts now recommending wearing masks in public toilets. Scroll down for video The flush of a urinal causes coronavirus-laden particles to 'climb violently' into the air, a study found, with experts now recommending wearing masks in public toilets. The modelling revealed that …

What Should We Still Be Cleaning And Disinfecting To Prevent COVID-19?
4 years, 4 months ago

What Should We Still Be Cleaning And Disinfecting To Prevent COVID-19?

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The sales of disinfecting sprays and wipes skyrocketed in recent months as the public scrambled to more frequently disinfect commonly touched surfaces and items that could spread the coronavirus. “Relative to other things that one might want to do, such as wearing a mask, avoiding large gatherings and maintaining distance from other people, the importance of disinfecting …

The big lesson from coronavirus? We need to listen to the experts
4 years, 5 months ago

The big lesson from coronavirus? We need to listen to the experts

Wired  

One of the myths of the global coronavirus pandemic is that no one could have seen it coming, that Covid-19 was an unanticipated event that emerged without warning or precedent. As the epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who led the WHO programme that eradicated smallpox told me in 2014 when discussing the chances of a more virulent pathogen emerging following the SARS …

Coronavirus and surfaces: What's the latest on what we know about how you can catch COVID-19?
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus and surfaces: What's the latest on what we know about how you can catch COVID-19?

ABC  

Are you more likely to catch coronavirus from surfaces or from droplets in the air? Under experimental conditions it found: The virus could still be detected on stainless steel and plastic after 72 hours No viable SARS-CoV-2 could be detected on a cardboard surface after 24 hours No viable SARS-CoV-2 could be detected on a copper surface after four hours …

How do people catch coronavirus? What we know so far
4 years, 5 months ago

How do people catch coronavirus? What we know so far

Live Mint  

The modus operandi is becoming clearer. For the most part, SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, spreads by close personal contact via tiny particles emitted when an infected person coughs, sneezes, speaks, sings -- or even just breathes normally. Patients may harbor potentially infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus in their saliva, stool, and urine as long as 15 days after falling ill, …

Coronavirus pandemic exposes scientific rift over proving when germs are airborne
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus pandemic exposes scientific rift over proving when germs are airborne

India Today  

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century - to the very origins of germ theory. "WHO's slow motion on this issue is unfortunately slowing the control of the pandemic," said Jose Jimenez, a University of Colorado chemist who signed the public letter urging the agency to change its …

Inhaling aerosols containing virus can cause COVID-19. WHO issues airborne transmission guidelines
4 years, 5 months ago

Inhaling aerosols containing virus can cause COVID-19. WHO issues airborne transmission guidelines

India TV News  

The World Health Organization issued fresh guidelines on the transmission of the novel coronavirus that acknowledge some reports of airborne transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19. Airborne transmission of COVID-19: This development comes days after over 200 scientists wrote letter urging the global body to update its guidelines on how the respiratory disease spreads to include aerosol transmission. WHO …

WHO: Indoor airborne spread of coronavirus possible
4 years, 5 months ago

WHO: Indoor airborne spread of coronavirus possible

Associated Press  

LONDON — The World Health Organization is acknowledging the possibility that COVID-19 might be spread in the air under certain conditions — after more than 200 scientists urged the agency to do so. In an open letter published this week in a journal, two scientists from Australia and the U.S. wrote that studies have shown “beyond any reasonable doubt that …

Scientists urge WHO to acknowledge virus can spread in air
4 years, 6 months ago

Scientists urge WHO to acknowledge virus can spread in air

Associated Press  

LONDON — More than 200 scientists have called for the World Health Organization and others to acknowledge that the coronavirus can spread in the air — a change that could alter some of the current measures being taken to stop the pandemic. In a letter published this week in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, two scientists from Australia and the …

WHO reviewing report urging new guidance over airborne spread of coronavirus
4 years, 6 months ago

WHO reviewing report urging new guidance over airborne spread of coronavirus

The Hindu  

The World Health Organization is reviewing a report urging it to update guidance on the novel coronavirus after more than 200 scientists, in a letter to the health agency, outlined evidence the virus can spread in tiny airborne particles. Governments, which rely on the agency for guidance policy, may also have to adjust public health measures aimed at curbing the …

Can coronavirus spread through air? Hundreds of experts say yes
4 years, 6 months ago

Can coronavirus spread through air? Hundreds of experts say yes

Deccan Chronicle  

Hundreds of scientists say there is evidence that novel coronavirus in smaller particles in the air can infect people and are calling for the World Health Organization to revise recommendations, the New York Times reported on Saturday. In an open letter to the agency, which the researchers plan to publish in a scientific journal next week, 239 scientists in 32 …

Coronavirus spreads through the air as aerosol, 230 scientists write in open letter to World Health Organization
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus spreads through the air as aerosol, 230 scientists write in open letter to World Health Organization

ABC  

The World Health Organization has downplayed airborne transmission of COVID-19 since the pandemic began but now more than 200 scientists are making a plea for action, warning people they aren't as protected as they may think. Professor Morawska says scientists have demonstrated "beyond any reasonable doubt" that those microdroplets pose a risk beyond 1 to 2 metres, potentially making the …

239 scientists press WHO on ‘airborne’ coronavirus spread
4 years, 6 months ago

239 scientists press WHO on ‘airborne’ coronavirus spread

Al Jazeera  

WHO has long maintained COVID-19 is spread via larger respiratory droplets and dismissed possibility of aerosol route. The authors cited previous studies suggesting germs closely related to COVID-19 were spread via airborne transmission, and “there is every reason to expect” coronavirus behaves similarly. “People may think they are fully protected by adhering to the current recommendations, but in fact additional …

Scientists begin study to see if Covid-19 can be spread by sewage
4 years, 6 months ago

Scientists begin study to see if Covid-19 can be spread by sewage

Daily Mail  

A system is being developed to reliably test wastewater in the UK for signs of coronavirus. Scientists are creating a standardised process, with the help of a £1million research grant, to find out if Covid-19 can be spread via sewage and wastewater. Scroll down for video Scientists are creating a standardised process, with the help of a £1million research grant, …

What Our Poop Can Tell Us About The Spread Of Coronavirus
4 years, 6 months ago

What Our Poop Can Tell Us About The Spread Of Coronavirus

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Testing poop in sewage may be an efficient way to monitor the spread of coronavirus ― and it could even predict a second wave. SARS-CoV-2 RNA in sewage/sludge is predictive of: a) Community transmission b) ⬆️& ⬇️ intensity of #COVID19 outbreak c) as a leading indicator for cases Our new study w/ @jordan_peccia Ed Kaplan @NathanGrubaugh @WeinbergerDan …

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