“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
“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
This could use a lot more explanation. Can anyone explain what the first chart represents? https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/wastewater-surveillance.html
ReplyDeleteAlso, how is this a 'game changer?'
ReplyDeleteIt appears that in their haste to dazzle us with brilliance they have managed to baffle us with B.S.
ReplyDeletehttps://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. "