Thrilled to share our lab's first manuscript detailing our method for full length sequencing of ARGs. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

How can you do wastewater surveillance when there are no sewers? Check out our new preprint on sampling strategies!

#Ottawa SARS-CoV-2 wastewater trends as of: September 15. Pandemic highlighting past year (A), blue line is weekly average; Past year highlighting last 2 months (B); Past 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with github.com/phac-nml-phrsd…

#Ottawa virus wastewater trends as of: September 08. Polyline = 7 day average normalized signal.

Due to unforeseen issues, the complete local COVID-19 & Respiratory Virus Risk Index is unavailable for the week of September 18. Based on available data, wastewater surveillance data is expected to be HIGH this week. Review guidance at peterboroughpublichealth.ca/covid-19-risk-…

Just gave my talk on respiratory viruses in #wastewater at #ESCV2024 in Frankfurt: "From Wastewater to Clinical Samples." 🦠 Wastewater is a hot topic and a key focus for the future of virology! #PublicHealth #WastewaterSurveillance #Virology

COVID in Wastewater by CITY Data from 9/14/24 VERY HIGH Ada Anadarko Broken Arrow Midwest City Muskogee Norman Seminole Stillwater Tahlequah Tulsa North Yukon NO DATA Bartlesville Durant Enid OKC area Tulsa South Woodward Source: oklahoma.gov/health/health-…

Oklahoma COVID Metrics (9/14/24) Positivity - 16.5%⬇️ Hospitalizations - 61⬇️ (114 last week) Wastewater - 908k⬆️

There is a pervasive myth that the DRC 🇨🇩 and other countries in Africa affected by the current #mpox outbreak lack capacity for the many elements that are needed for effective outbreak response. That is not true… my piece in ⁦STAT⁩ statnews.com/2024/09/17/mpo…

New Research 📄 WastewaterSCAN program directors Dr. Alexandria Boehm and Dr. Marlene Wolfe co-authored a MMWR paper on the current detection of Influenza A and H5 subtype in municipal #wastewater across the country. Read the paper: cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

#Ottawa SARS-CoV-2 wastewater trends as of: September 15. Pandemic highlighting past year (A), blue line is weekly average; Past year highlighting last 2 months (B); Past 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with github.com/phac-nml-phrsd…

#Ottawa virus wastewater trends as of: September 15. Polyline = 7 day average normalized signal.

1/ 📈 WWSCAN Weekly Data COVID-19: Nationally and in some regions (Midwest & Northeast), SARS-CoV-2 continues to be in the “High” category with high concentrations and no significant upward or downward trend over the last 3 weeks.

2/COVID-19 Variants: In sequencing data from a subset of WWSCAN sites, we see that KP variants are making up > 50% of variants with KP.1 (lime green) at 16.7%, KP.2 (slate blue) at 21.2% & KP.3 (light blue) at 40.6%. Sequencing data has a longer lag of 1-2 weeks after collection.

3/ Influenza: Flu A and B are in the “Low” category nationally and in all regions.

4/ H5 influenza marker: H5 has been detected in 9 states - AR, CA, CO, IA, ID, MI, MN, SD & TX. As of 9/19/24, CA, CO, IA, ID, MI, MN, SD & TX have also had infected cattle herds reported.

5/ EV-D68: Nationwide and in all regions, EV-D68 is in the “Medium” category. About 78% of samples tested in the last 10 days detected EV-D68.

6/ Norovirus: Nationwide, Norovirus is in the “Medium” category with medium concentrations and no significant upward or downward trend over the last 3 weeks. The Northeast is in the “Low” category while the South is in the High category.

7/ Now you can click on the periwinkle button under the Location Search Bar to look at regional trends! Visit data.wastewaterscan.org to see the new regional overview.