{"id":6068,"date":"2021-03-08T17:54:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:54:31","slug":"rapid-increase-of-sars-cov-2-variant-b-1-1-7-detected-in-sewage-samples-from-england-between-october-2020-and-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/08\/rapid-increase-of-sars-cov-2-variant-b-1-1-7-detected-in-sewage-samples-from-england-between-october-2020-and-january-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Increase of SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.1.7 Detected in Sewage Samples from England between October 2020 and January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> Between October 2020 and January 2021, a rapid increase in the SARS-CoV-2 variant\u00a0B.1.1.7 was detected in sewage samples in England. Viral RNA containing B.1.1.7 mutations was first identified in a sample collected in London on November 10 and detected in 7-9% of all sewage samples in November, increasing to &gt;95% by January 2021. The authors suggest that environmental surveillance of sewage may provide an early warning of potential spread of specific variants of concern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Wilton et al.\u00a0(Mar 7, 2021). Rapid Increase of SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.1.7 Detected in Sewage Samples from England between October 2020 and January 2021. Pre-print downloaded Mar 8 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.03.21252867\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.03.21252867<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Between October 2020 and January 2021, a rapid increase in the SARS-CoV-2 variant\u00a0B.1.1.7 was detected in sewage samples in England. Viral RNA containing B.1.1.7 mutations was first identified in a sample collected in London on November 10 and detected in 7-9% of all sewage samples in November, increasing to &gt;95% by January&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/08\/rapid-increase-of-sars-cov-2-variant-b-1-1-7-detected-in-sewage-samples-from-england-between-october-2020-and-january-2021\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,159],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","tag-variants","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}