Episode 15 – Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2

Professor Alex MacKenzie MD, PhD, Dr Tyson Graber PhD, and Professor Robert Delatolla PhD talk about their research and work in detecting SARS-CoV-2 in the Wastewater of the citizens of Ontario, Canada.

“SARS-CoV-2 Protein in Wastewater Mirrors COVID-19 Prevalence” – https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.01.20185280v1

“How sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak” – https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00973-x/

“Quantitative analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from wastewater solids in communities with low COVID-19 incidence and prevalence” – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135420310952

“How Wastewater Treatment Works – The Basics – https://www3.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/bastre.pdf

“How Do Wastewater Treatment Plants Work?” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvPakzqM3h8

Ottawa Public Health Wastewater Surveillance – https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/reports-research-and-statistics/Wastewater_COVID-19_Surveillance.aspx

CHEO Research Institute – https://www.cheoresearch.ca/about-us/media/news/our-researchers-discuss-tracking-covid-19-in-wastewater-with-the-media/

“The myriad ways sewage surveillance is helping fight COVID around the world” – https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01234-1

“How sewage can warn us about the next pandemic” – https://www.vox.com/23005271/sewage-wastewater-surveillance-covid-19-biobot-analytics-pandemic

COVIDPoops19 Dashboard – https://www.covid19wbec.org/covidpoops19