{"id":105565,"date":"2020-04-17T08:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/what-do-we-know-about-covid-19-and-sewage"},"modified":"2020-04-17T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:07:35","slug":"what-do-we-know-about-covid-19-and-sewage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/what-do-we-know-about-covid-19-and-sewage","title":{"rendered":"What do we know about COVID-19 and sewage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-do-we-know-about-covid-19-and-sewage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A version of this story was first published by <em>COVID-19 Waterblog<\/em>. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.createdigital.org.au\/renny-chivunga-worked-film-sets-catwalks-passion-water-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There has been quite some talk about SARS-CoV-2 shedding in faeces and what that might mean for the water industry. Here, Susan Petterson provides a snapshot of the current data.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I see it, there are two aspects to this conversation: the first is a concern that sewage may contain infectious SARS-CoV-2 viruses; and the second relates to the more theoretical potential of using SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentration in sewage as a public health surveillance tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A version of this story was first published by COVID-19 Waterblog. Read the original. There has been quite some talk about SARS-CoV-2 shedding in faeces and what that might mean for the water industry. Here, Susan Petterson provides a snapshot of the current data. As I see it, there are two aspects to this conversation: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}