This is finally in process of large scale implementation:
One other question remains: if traces of the virus exist in untreated sewag e, does that mean someone could catch COVID-19 from it? Aaron Packman, an e nvironmental engineer at Northwestern University, recently said in a public statement that there was a risk of waterborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 a nd that wastewater systems should be examined carefully.
On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 2:04:46 PM UTC-4, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrot e:
age, does that mean someone could catch COVID-19 from it? Aaron Packman, an environmental engineer at Northwestern University, recently said in a publ ic statement that there was a risk of waterborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and that wastewater systems should be examined carefully.
Sewage is treated before releasing, treated again before drinking. What ex actly is the threat, swimming?
You mean, you didn't know that raw sewage is a bio hazard?
How quaint!
Jeroen Belleman
The tests detect RNA fragments, not whole molecules. So the virus could be broken up enough to be safe with high confidence, but it would still trigger the test.
All the same, don't drink or swim in raw sewage, please.
CH
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