{"id":115312,"date":"2020-10-30T17:02:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T00:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/alberta-excrement-being-tested-for-covid-19-as-researchers-refine-sewage-surveillance"},"modified":"2020-10-30T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T00:02:26","slug":"alberta-excrement-being-tested-for-covid-19-as-researchers-refine-sewage-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/alberta-excrement-being-tested-for-covid-19-as-researchers-refine-sewage-surveillance","title":{"rendered":"Alberta excrement being tested for COVID-19 as researchers refine sewage surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alberta-excrement-being-tested-for-covid-19-as-researchers-refine-sewage-surveillance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe logistics of clinical testing don\u2019t let you sample everybody, but sewage does sample everybody.\u201d-Steve Hrudey.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Raw sewage being flushed into Alberta\u2019s municipal wastewater plants could help public health officials better track \u2014 and predict \u2014 the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Alberta scientists has joined a growing international effort to sample wastewater for traces of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe logistics of clinical testing don\u2019t let you sample everybody, but sewage does sample everybody.\u201d-Steve Hrudey. Raw sewage being flushed into Alberta\u2019s municipal wastewater plants could help public health officials better track \u2014 and predict \u2014 the spread of COVID-19. A team of Alberta scientists has joined a growing international effort to sample wastewater for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115312","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}