Cases in Alberta have surged in recent weeks, as has criticism of the province’s plans to end COVID\u002D19 protocols like testing, tracing and isolation.
Meantime, another way of tracking the waves of the pandemic is growing next month.
Unlike swab testing that requires people to sign up, sewage samples include nearly everyone, and if they have the virus it will show up in waste even before they have symptoms.Article content “We’re measuring a signal of how much virus is out there … the trends over time are very consistent,” he said.
In an email, Bourdeau said individual testing and wastewater monitoring are two different ways the government is looking at the impacts of COVID-19 on a region, and sewage testing gives public health officials insight into the virus’ level in a community. Her lab considers the amount of virus in a community to be low and undetectable when samples show fewer than 100 copies of SARS-CoV-2 RNA per 100 millilitres, and very high over 10,000.
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