Wastewater Monitoring for COVID-19 in Canada
This paper describes and explains the novel experience of how Canadian researchers initiated and demonstrated how monitoring wastewater for genetic signals of the virus that causes COVID-19 can provide independent, cost-effective evidence about trends in the occurrence of that illness in the community served by a sewer system.
Read the paper — Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Canada by Steve E. Hrudey, Heather N. Bischel, Jeff Charrois, Alex H. S. Chik, Bernadette Conant, Rob Delatolla, Sarah Dorner, Tyson E. Graber, Casey Hubert, Judy Isaac-Renton, Wendy Pons, Hannah Safford, Mark Servos, and Christopher Sikora.