SUSTAIN WHAT - Can Sewage Tests Ease Tracking of COVID-19? You’ve heard of the microbiome within us. Well there’s also a macrobiome connecting us, from sneezes to excrement. That’s why a new hunt is under way around the world for ways to use wastewater testing to track the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. Join Andy Revkin of Columbia University’s Earth Institute in conversation with Rolf Halden, director of the Center for Environmental Health Engineering at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University; Jeff Schlegelmilch, deputy director of Columbia’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness and Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Past episodes: https://lnkd.in/eiUpiJc http://pscp.tv/revkin
A COVID-19 Solution - Tracking SARS CoV-2 in the Sewers?
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Thank you for this enlightening conversation! The benefits seem clear, but would assume that people trust their public institutions to redirect resources (tests, emergency health workers, etc) fairly -- based on need vs, say wealth. How to ensure fair distribution, public transparency?, and who is doing this well now? I look forward to joining this conversation about pushing these solutions forward.
Is State of CA looking at sewage? would think they would be interested. State of NY?
If septic waste (from truck delivery)is added, that adds a different variable
As wastewater arrives at the plant, it’s more real time data. It then sits in tanks for a long time and is mixed...
Sewage sludge varies constantly, so there would have to be frequent (hourly) sampling, depending on where the same is taken
Thank you. I am Learning a lot.
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3ycan we call it something less scary than "surveillance"?