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What wastewater surveillance currently tells us about COVID
The hill ^ | 06/01/2022 | Chia-Yi Hou

Posted on 06/01/2022 11:56:56 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, even though many may have started acting like the emergency has passed. A key tool in tracking the pandemic has been wastewater surveillance, especially when case counts and testing numbers have become less reliable with more people using rapid tests and testing access becoming more limited again.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: covid; currently; surveillance; wastewater
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I keep hearing cases are six times higher then last year at this time. 🙄
1 posted on 06/01/2022 11:56:56 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only those with natural immunity are safe, so more people getting it will eventuate herd immunity.


2 posted on 06/01/2022 12:00:27 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Isn’t “The Hill” a Leftist propaganda page?


3 posted on 06/01/2022 12:03:50 PM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If there is money to be made... cases will be found


4 posted on 06/01/2022 12:04:30 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The first thing we need to do is protect our presstitutes with Strict Lockdowns and Quarantine them for an entire YEAR, to keep them safe.


5 posted on 06/01/2022 12:06:00 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

D’ya think they’ll ever admit that the vaccine was an abject failure? Ever?


6 posted on 06/01/2022 12:11:09 PM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Are the hospitals still killing them, or are they now happy/satisfied with the adverse reactions’ increasing mortality? That’s what I want to know.


7 posted on 06/01/2022 12:12:17 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: 1Old Pro

I know a family of five who have natural immunity from the original Covid strain. Three out of the five caught Covid again recently. It was short and mild.


8 posted on 06/01/2022 12:15:17 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrat rule No. 63:
Keep the Pandemic going.

Democrat rule No. 64:
When in doubt, refer to rule No. 63.


9 posted on 06/01/2022 12:16:13 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What does the fact that our central-planning, control-freak government conducts “surveillance” on what we flush down the toilet tell us?


10 posted on 06/01/2022 12:19:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A pandemic so deadly nobody even notices when they contract it.


11 posted on 06/01/2022 12:20:57 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, and bodies being stored in refrigerated trucks behind the hospital.

COVID is over.


12 posted on 06/01/2022 12:22:06 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: All

Here is what is going on with the virus:

1) US Covid death counts (the only count that matters) have declined from the 3000+ levels of 3 months ago to about 275. This is slightly higher than the minimum death count of last summer. The present decline has flattened.

2) Many states are delaying reporting, compared to last year, so you can only get accurate numbers by looking back about 2 weeks. The decline was flat then.

3) Today’s data will become meaningful only in 2 weeks.

4) Vax for nearly everyone is essentially useless now. It aged and lost immunity. There is no such thing as “natural immunity” because it is an non natural virus, but there IS recovered immunity. This is immunity obtained by surviving infection. It has been shown to last slightly less long than vax immunity — and that’s not a measure of antibody titer. Enough time has passed to count actual infections. More occurred via recovered immunity vs vax at a given timeframe.

5) There is no worse or better. Both fail. It is not a natural virus and both fail. We hear many reports of vaxed people dying of Covid now. They were early vax adopters, it got old, and Covid got them. Same thing is happening to old folks who got infected and survived. They are dying too, and of course, they are a year older.

6) The only thing that protects you is . . . not being over 65, and not being around other people. NOTHING else works. If you’re not over 65, you’re in no danger to yourself, but you’re a potential carrier and killer of oldsters.

Those are the rules of the game. The virus allows no cheating.


13 posted on 06/01/2022 12:22:27 PM PDT by Owen
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The only thing that protects you is . . . not being over 65

I'd argue it has more to due with comorbidity and less to do with age unless the aged have health issues.

14 posted on 06/01/2022 12:24:24 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In the beginning, many suspected that Covid was being spread via sewer gasses.

In China apartment buildings, residents were locked in their apartments with zero outside contact, but were still contracting Covid.

They suspected that the interconnected sewer vent lines were transporting the virus from apartment to apartment via drain lines, then out the vent at the top of the building.

It seems the best tracing has been wastewater.


15 posted on 06/01/2022 12:25:56 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: Spok

It didn’t fail to make a profit and that was its only real purpose.


16 posted on 06/01/2022 12:30:43 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Owen

You have done a great summary of the ‘new normal’. We can expect a spike over it every year in what use to be flu season.


17 posted on 06/01/2022 12:30:47 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Owen

And I would add, do not go to a hospital or go on a ventilator.


18 posted on 06/01/2022 12:32:51 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: TheBattman

Why, yes, “The Hill” IS, in fact, a leftist propaganda rag.

Pray tell, why do you ask?

Wondering, perhaps, why otherwise sane Conservatives at FR so often post their vomitous fare?

I honestly cannot answer that question; I haven’t got one.


19 posted on 06/01/2022 12:36:59 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: Erik Latranyi
“They suspected that the interconnected sewer vent lines were transporting the virus from apartment to apartment via drain lines, then out the vent at the top of the building.”

They were partially correct. They do not use P-traps on the plumbing in China. That is the problem. The toilet forms a P-trap with the water in the bowl so that is ok.

The sink though has a straight drain hookup to the common sewage stack that it is hooked up to.

Someone flushes on a floor above when they have covid then aerosolized contaminated feces exit the sink drain in the apartments below and contaminate the general area of the sink where you brush your teeth,wash your face etc. Voila’ you eventually get infected.

This was figured out by two cases. One in Hong Kong and one in Shanghai.

20 posted on 06/01/2022 12:43:35 PM PDT by Polynikes (Nicht geimpft Mensch 2nd Klasse)
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