There have been growing concerns among public health officials to ramp up monitoring for coronavirus variants amid a Covid-19 surge in China
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has “done some very preliminary work” to do wastewater testing with airlines, Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive officer for the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said Wednesday. . “I think they’ve done some early piloting of one flight, for example, testing the blue water in one flight,” she said, adding that such a program could be expanded to test collections of wastewater from multiple flights or a single airport.
“We have just limited information in terms of what’s being shared related to number of cases [that] are increasing hospitalizations and especially deaths,” one federal health official told CNN last month. “Also, there’s been a decrease in testing across China. So that also makes it difficult to know what the true infection rate is.
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