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This is a really potentially incredibly important technique in terms of public health decisions, not necessarily just about oved either potentially about other diseases or other pandemics in the future. In california, i think in this lar context, i think they are starting to use it, and and they are finding the speeds that potentially could inform public health decision making. So we'll have to see what happens. It's a new tool, and it's quite an exciting tool that has been developed. But at this stage it's just sarscaty, right? And i absolutely mean, there are different sewage systems that exist around the world,. but waste arster systems exist to varying degrees -

Since early in the pandemic, scientists have searched for signals of SARS-CoV-2 transmission by sampling wastewater. This surveillance method has provided vital information to inform public health responses. But the approach has never been particularly specific - pointing to broad trends rather than granular information such as which variants are spreading where. But now a team from the University of California have created two new tools to sample waste water in much greater detail - and spot variants and their relative concentrations up to two weeks faster than testing-based surveillance methods. In this episode of Coronapod, we discuss the paper and ask how a system like this could help countries around the world respond to the COVID pandemic and beyond.

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