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How can we act on the waves of COVID counts and future pathogens? Wastewater can tell.
Aug 9, 2022
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article263956151.html
New coronavirus cases reported to the state of North Carolina have reached their highest numbers since the winter, but the reported number still doesn’t reflect the level of coronavirus being found in wastewater.
COVID transmission could once again surge while NC cities — regardless of their level of community spread — haven’t made a push on public masking as they did in the winter.
As a next and possibly more effective step to help individuals make decisions on personal protection, the government could turn wastewater surveillance into local risk forecasting, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina who lead NC’s wastewater studies.
New coronavirus cases reported to the state of North Carolina have reached their highest numbers since the winter, but the reported number still doesn’t reflect the level of coronavirus being found in wastewater.
COVID transmission could once again surge while NC cities — regardless of their level of community spread — haven’t made a push on public masking as they did in the winter.
As a next and possibly more effective step to help individuals make decisions on personal protection, the government could turn wastewater surveillance into local risk forecasting, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina who lead NC’s wastewater studies.