{"id":6319,"date":"2020-04-27T14:15:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T21:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:16:32","slug":"metropolitan-wastewater-analysis-for-covid%e2%80%9019-epidemiological-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/27\/metropolitan-wastewater-analysis-for-covid%e2%80%9019-epidemiological-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Wastewater Analysis for COVID\u201019 Epidemiological Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randazzo et al used RTqPCR for SARS\u2010CoV\u20102 detection in a series of longitudinal wastewater samples collected during the earliest stages of the epidemic in Valencia, Spain. The team consistently detected SARS\u2010CoV\u20102 RNA in samples taken when cases in that region were only incipient. They note that wastewater viral RNA context increased rapidly and anticipated the subsequent ascent in the number of declared cases. They conclude that wastewater analysis is a sensitive and cost\u2010effective strategy for COVID\u201019 epidemiological surveillance of community transmission and significantly improves PH preparedness against new or re\u2010occurring viral outbreaks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randazzo et al. (April 23 2020). Metropolitan Wastewater Analysis for COVID\u201019 Epidemiological Surveillance. Preprint downloaded April 27 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.23.20076679\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.23.20076679<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randazzo et al used RTqPCR for SARS\u2010CoV\u20102 detection in a series of longitudinal wastewater samples collected during the earliest stages of the epidemic in Valencia, Spain. The team consistently detected SARS\u2010CoV\u20102 RNA in samples taken when cases in that region were only incipient. They note that wastewater viral RNA context increased rapidly and anticipated the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/27\/metropolitan-wastewater-analysis-for-covid%e2%80%9019-epidemiological-surveillance\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6320,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}