#COVID19 Journal Club: Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Australia

Posted on April 20, 2020

So this concept of doing wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 is gaining more and more traction. We posted recently about some work from MIT showing that wastewater titers of the virus are quite a bit higher than might be expected from the clinical data we have. I know some of the folks here at UC Davis …

#COVID19 Preprint Journal club: “SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from clinically confirmed cases”

By David Coil Posted in .Featured Coronavirus

Posted on April 9, 2020April 18, 2020

Moving from hospitals into environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2, here looking at detection in wastewater. “SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from clinically confirmed cases“. The title really says it all here… it’s a great demonstration of the utility of wastewater surveillance for this kind of question, although quantification is much harder than just …