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Wastewater samples reveal record levels of Covid-19 across US
- bsaul 5y agoNote that the city of marseille ( actually the firemen of the city) in France have been doing monitoring of covid level since summer 2020 via sewers water.
- mpnex 5y agoThis is actually pretty common. Two links offhand that have popped up on here recently: Santa Clara County, CA: https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater Boston, MA: https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm HN thread for the Boston link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29466172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29466172 Thread has links to other areas as well, and some helpful discussion of how this data can be interpreted, as well as some potential problems with it. It's my impression that most major metropolitan areas (and many smaller water systems) do this on a regular basis for multiple diseases; I guess it was never really common knowledge before it started popping up on web dashboards with this pandemic. Maybe they just weren't too keen on publishing it before now or something?
- a0-prw 5y ago"The pandemic has ushered in a new era of wastewater analysis, once a maligned discipline, to inform public health policy." Really? Why was it once a "maligned discipline" ?