RAC Environmental Testing

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Thu, 2021-01-28 03:45 — mdmcdonald

This Resilient American Communities (RAC) COVID-19 Initiative workgroup is focused on environmental testing with a current priority on early COV-2 outbreak detection at hyperlocal levels. Early identification and control of new COV-2 variants in Resilient American Communities around the country is also of strategy importance during early to mid-2021.

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Testing runoff water near homeless encampments to detect COVID

Thu, 2024-04-04 10:24 — mike kraft

Testing environmental water to monitor COVID-19 spread in unsheltered encampments

To better understand COVID-19's spread during the pandemic, public health officials have expanded wastewater surveillance. These efforts track SARS-CoV-2 levels and health risks among most people, but they miss people who live without shelter, a population particularly vulnerable to severe infection.

To fill this information gap, researchers reporting in Environmental Science & Technology Letters tested flood-control waterways near unsheltered encampments, finding similar transmission patterns as in the broader community and identifying previously unseen viral mutations.

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