Everyone poops—and that reveals traces of pathogens. Comprehensively analyzing wastewater could help find flu and detect the next pandemic.
, among many others, to set up their own testing. Big municipalities, too: New York City began allowing scientists at the City University of New York to examine samples from its wastewater plants in June 2020, formalizing it into a citywide testing regimeThose sampling programs have served as early warning systems for their areas, by mapping the extent of disease spread and flagging the arrival of new variants before tests on people do.
The New York testing regime—which is run by John Dennehy, a virologist and professor of biology at Queens College of the City University of New York, and Monica Trujillo, a microbiologist and associate professor at CUNY’s Queensborough Community College—flagged the arrival of Omicron in the city on November 21, four days before its existence was announced by South African scientists and 10 days before the city’s first recognized case. That finding provided more than just situational awareness.
announcing the system. “The real power of this program will be more evident in the coming weeks when hundreds more testing sites will begin submitting data.”Covid-19 Data Dispatch: Johnson’s Missouri network, plus Ohio and Wisconsin. Another seven states—California, Colorado, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia—have enough sampling sites to deliver a usable picture of the virus’s movement in their territories.
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