{"id":8408,"date":"2020-07-22T16:16:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:17:17","slug":"sars-cov-2-titers-in-wastewater-are-higher-than-expected-from-clinically-confirmed-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/22\/sars-cov-2-titers-in-wastewater-are-higher-than-expected-from-clinically-confirmed-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Titers in Wastewater Are Higher than Expected from Clinically Confirmed Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Wu et al. tested wastewater collected at a major urban treatment facility in Massachusetts from March\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">18 to 25<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2020 and observed significantly higher\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">titers\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(57 to 303 copies per mL of sewage)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">than expected<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">based on\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">number of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">clinically confirmed cases<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0at the time<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The investigators suggest that wastewater-based surveillance could help inform relaxing of lockdown and quarantine efforts.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wu et al. (July 21, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 Titers in Wastewater Are Higher than Expected from Clinically Confirmed Cases.\u00a0MSystems.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/mSystems.00614-20\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/mSystems.00614-20<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wu et al. tested wastewater collected at a major urban treatment facility in Massachusetts from March\u00a018 to 25,\u00a02020 and observed significantly higher\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0titers\u00a0(57 to 303 copies per mL of sewage)\u00a0than expected\u00a0based on\u00a0number of\u00a0clinically confirmed cases\u00a0at the time. The investigators suggest that wastewater-based surveillance could help inform relaxing of lockdown and quarantine efforts.\u00a0 Wu et al. (July&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/22\/sars-cov-2-titers-in-wastewater-are-higher-than-expected-from-clinically-confirmed-cases\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-8408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408","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=8408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8409,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions\/8409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}