COVID-19

1. Wastewater Analysis Can Help Fight Viruses, But Obstacles Remain 1/20/2023

   The wastewater analysis techniques leveraged in the treatment industry have been rapidly adopted by researchers in their attempts to identify surges in disease and protect public health. Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) added wastewater analysis data to its national COVID-19 tracking dashboard and more recently, scientists have turned to this analysis to combat the spread of polio and monkeypox as well.

2. FREDsense Water Quality Test Kit Finds Infection In Wastewater To Guide Communities In Fighting Disease 12/29/2022

   FREDsense announced this week that it is showing positive results from a pilot in Israel involving its patented FRED-Extract System.

3. Precision Insights Can Be Found In Wastewater 12/14/2022

   Research from the lab of Fangqiong Ling at Washington University in St. Louis showed earlier this year that the amount of SARS-CoV-2 in a wastewater system was correlated with the burden of disease — COVID-19 — in the region it served.

4. Who Sees What You Flush? Wastewater Surveillance For Public Health Is On The Rise, But A New Survey Reveals Many U.S. Adults Are Still Unaware 11/3/2022

   Flush and forget? Not if you have a toilet that flushes to one of over 3,000 sites around the world where researchers are using wastewater to track SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But what do members of the public actually know about wastewater surveillance? And what do they think about researchers tracking what they send down the drain at their home?

5. EPA Awards $1M To University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign For COVID-19 Research On Wastewater Systems To Track Current And Future Pandemics 10/19/2022

   Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1,000,000 in research grant funding to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to improve wastewater monitoring to rapidly detect the emergence and spread of infectious disease in the current COVID-19 pandemic, and to detect other pathogens that could cause future pandemics.

6. Preparing For The Next Pandemic: NSF Grants $1M To UB To Develop A Rapid Response System And Build Community Trust 9/27/2022

   They introduced genomic sequencing of the coronavirus to Western New York. They sampled wastewater to determine the level of the virus locally. They partnered with local groups to boost vaccinations and share scientific information in user-friendly ways.

7. U.S. Department Of Commerce Invests $15.4M In American Rescue Plan Funds To Bolster Infrastructure For Business And Job Growth In West Virginia 8/30/2022

   Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $15.4M in American Rescue Plan grants to support West Virginia as it recovers from the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

8. Monitoring COVID-19 Virus In Honolulu Wastewater Focus Of UH Public Impact Research 8/29/2022

   University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers are analyzing wastewater collected in Honolulu for the COVID-19 virus and its properties to gain a greater understanding of the virusʻs community spread.

9. Wastewater Is Anything But A Waste: It Could Even Prevent The Next Pandemic 8/22/2022

   Ari Goldfarb, CEO, Kando, discusses how innovative technologies and artificial intelligence tools are advancing wastewater analysis and could potentially mitigate the effects, or even prevent, future pandemics.

10. COVID Wastewater Monitoring Techniques Adapted To Track Monkeypox 8/16/2022

    As wastewater analysis has proven a critical tool in combating the spread of coronavirus, researchers now plan to leverage these techniques in the fight against the next high-profile pandemic.