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Saturday, January 22, 2022
Commending Professor Mark Servos’ efforts to track the spread of COVID-19
Use of wastewater-based surveillance of COVID-19 has become widespread around the globe. Professor Mark Servos explains the process and how wastewater data is being used by Public Health Units to inform the pandemic response. Follow the link here.
Friday, January 21, 2022
Mark Servos talks about COVID-19 and wastewater on Beyond the Bulletin
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.
Friday, January 14, 2022
Wastewater testing shows COVID-19 may be 'starting to plateau' in Kitchener and Cambridge
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
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Wastewater monitoring finds 80 percent of people with COVID have Omicron
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.
Friday, January 7, 2022
COVID-19 pandemic’s biggest peak yet expected this month
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.
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Flushing out COVID-19 spread: wastewater signals can be useful tool as testing declines
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.
Saturday, December 11, 2021
Omicron mutation potentially identified in Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon wastewater
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.
Monday, December 6, 2021
Waterloo team looking for Omicron in wastewater
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.
Thursday, September 16, 2021
How COVID-19 was detected in wastewater at 2 UW residences, and why that's significant
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.