Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland: Montgomery Co. monitoring wastewater for COVID-19

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Montgomery Co. monitoring wastewater for COVID-19

In Maryland’s Montgomery County, wastewater is now being monitored to detect COVID-19, with the aim of getting ahead of any winter surges.

“Wastewater surveillance will be a game changer for our efforts to better predict outbreaks and prevent them from happening,” said County Executive Marc Elrich, in a news release...

Montgomery Co. monitoring wastewater for COVID-19 - WTOP News

3 comments:

Paula BienenfeldNovember 28, 2022 at 1:42 PM
This could use a lot more explanation. Can anyone explain what the first chart represents? https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/wastewater-surveillance.html
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Paula BienenfeldNovember 28, 2022 at 1:42 PM
Also, how is this a 'game changer?'
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AnonymousNovember 28, 2022 at 6:03 PM
It appears that in their haste to dazzle us with brilliance they have managed to baffle us with B.S.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.06.22268855v1.full.pdf
"Limited information is available on the decay rate of endogenous SARS-CoV-2 and pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) RNA in wastewater and primary settled solids, potentially limiting an understanding of how transit or holding times within wastewater infrastructure might impact RNA measurements and their relationship to community COVID-19 infections. "
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Formed in 2002, the Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland seeks to achieve the goals of coherent, content-rich curriculum standards; high expectations combined with timely remediation and acceleration; a wider range of educational options for parents and children; greater transparency and accountability; and meaningful community input.

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What The Washington Post said about the Parents' Coalition

The coalition might be the best-known parent advocacy group in the region. Its members represent several constituencies, including parents of special education and gifted education students and fiscal watchdogs. The group's defining victory came this school year when the school system scaled back the fees charged to families for course materials.

Coalition leaders have drawn attention to the misuse of funds collected from students for activities, the broadcast of a commercial radio service on school buses and, with their "Weast Watch" blog, the travel habits of Weast and his lieutenants.

The Washington Post, June 4, 2009

Jerry Weast on the Parents' Coalition

"Along the way, you’ve had a challenging relationship with the Parents’ Coalition, the network of citizen activists who use the political process and other means to hold MCPS accountable.

The thing people accuse me of is listening, but not hearing. I hear, but I do not always agree. I am sorry that the world is faster than it was 10 years ago. I did not do that. [But] if we do not keep up, then our kids will be behind. We have to stop whining and get real."

Bethesda Magazine, March-April 2011