Listen to a podcast with Prof. Mark Servos talking about his team's experience with wastewater survielance as a way to monitor SARS-CoV-2 to support the pulic health response to the pandemic. Listen to the podcast here.
CBC News., Jackie Sharkey. Wastewater testing shows COVID-19 may be 'starting to plateau' in Kitchener and Cambridge: Similar plateau observed across Ontario wastewater monitoring projects, says monitor. January 14, 2022. Link
Wastewater monitoring works seperately from clinical testing but confirms what the public health have been saying: 80% of people with COVID-19 have the Omicron variant. Click here to read the article in Cambridge Today by Germain Ma.
COVID-19 pandemic’s biggest peak yet expected this month: Waterloo Region’s top doctor warns Omicron variant spreading exponentially in community. View the full story by Johanna Weidner in The Record.
The latest reports looking at COVID-19 in wastewater show how our work can be a useful tool since PCR testing is being limited in some jurisdictions. Click here to read the full story by Melissa Couto Zuber on CTV news.
There is the potential to find the Omicron covid-19 mutation in Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon wastewater. Confirmation is still pending to determine if Omicron is actually detected. View the full story by Sabrina Gamrot from the Brampton Guardian.
Johanna Weidner from The Record recently met with Dr Mark Servos and Dr Meghan Fuzzen to discuss the new Omicron covid-19 variant here in the Region of Waterloo. Click here to see the full article.
Our group has been monitoring COVID-19 on campus since September. At the end of September we detected it in two of the UW residences. Below are several of the articles about this.
The Servos lab has partnered with various local municipalites and MECP to fund research looking at COVID-19 in wastewater. See the below articles for more details.
Prof. Mark Srvos was recently awarded the Stephen J. Klaine Environmental Education Award, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Presented at the Annual Meeting Nov 3, 2019. See story here.