Canada needs all hands on deck for future waves of the COVID-19 pandemic

Steve E. Hrudey is Professor Emeritus, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and was the inaugural Associate Dean of the new School of Public Health, University of Alberta. He is Chair of the Research Advisory Group to the Canadian COVID-19 Wastewater Coalition.

Wastewater-based epidemiology is a complementary approach attracting international attention. WBE uses community sewage to represent an entire population to obtain quantitative signals of the prevalence of infection. A 24-hour composite sample of influent sewage represents the collective faecal discharge of an entire urban population on the sewer network - effectively a community-wide swab.

In Canada, the Canadian Water Network, a national not-for-profit knowledge broker, launched the COVID-19 Wastewater Coalition to advance the use of WBE in Canada by facilitating a national proof-of-concept pilot project to rapidly assess the ability to usefully apply WBE and to identify the key elements of WBE that would be needed in a Canadian surveillance program.

WBE cannot replace widespread, ongoing clinical testing, contact-tracing and isolation of infected individuals; knowledge about which individuals are infected will always be needed. But, the inherent capability of a single WBE composite sample to assess the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the faecal discharge of thousands to millions of individuals warrants careful evaluation.

😐More computer modeling ?🙄

If we're not ALL DEAD from COVID19 after all the protests among other no social-distancing events, then we KNOW the Globe & Mail is just a Globalist FASCISTIC arm of state propaganda spewing lies for another agenda entirely. It's NOT complicated. FakeNewsAlert commonsense

We have the data... there is a treatment... we aren’t scared - stop fear mongering 🙄

SHUT UP! No more fear mongering. Even according to seasonal flu statistics there is a pandemic EVERY YEAR! This is nothing out of the ordinary, only manipulated and distorted by you for the government. There will be NO MORE LOCKDOWNS, EVER, and the W.H.O. and the U.N. know it.

Fearmongering.

So why is the military still in LTC homes after Sajjan said it wasn't sustainable? Going to be hard to get all hands on deck when QC & ON can't even figure out how to staff LTC after all these months...

Mask for all

Too busy protesting by the thousands.

The protester showed us all that are efforts were for nothing . So please stop posting about hands on deck.

We're still waiting for the 1st wave. Stop trying to spread fear, it won't work again. Everybody now knows it was a Fake Pandemic. Now we got Fake News, Fake Pandemics, Fake Boobs, Fake Hair, Fake Fuck Dolls. What's next? Everything is Fake in Fakeville.

Well after all these foolish protests, if there isnt a huge spike, we know the media and governmenthave been lying to us and we can forget this social distancing bs

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