Interesting discussion about wastewater and COVID19

By Jonathan Eisen Posted in .Featured Coronavirus

Posted on May 3, 2020May 5, 2020

Interesting discussion of sewage and COVID19. Interview / discussion led by Andrew Revkin (Columbia University’s Earth Institute) and includes Rolf Halden (Arizona State University), Jeff Schlegelmilch (Columbia’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness) and Angela Rasmussen (Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health).

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Temporal detection and phylogenetic assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in municipal wastewater”

Posted on May 2, 2020

Wastewater detection for SARS-CoV-2 seems to be a hot topic these days (full disclosure, we recently submitted a grant recently to jump on this same bandwagon). This study “Temporal detection and phylogenetic assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in municipal wastewater” took place in Montana (USA). This study goes a bit further than the previous one by genome …