Qingyu Zhan, Helena Maria Solo-Gabriele, Mark E Sharkey, Ayaaz Amirali, Cynthia C Beaver, Melinda M Boone, Samuel Comerford, Daniel Cooper, Elena M Cortizas, Gabriella A Cosculluela, Benjamin B Currall, George S Grills, Erin Kobetz, Naresh Kumar, Jennifer Laine, Walter E Lamar, Jiangnan Lyu, Christopher E Mason, Brian D Reding, Matthew A Roca, Stephan C Schürer, Bhavarth S Shukla, Natasha Schaefer Solle, Maritza M Suarez, Mario Stevenson, John J Tallon, Collette Thomas, Dušica Vidović, Sion L Williams, Xue Yin, Yalda Zarnegarnia, Kristina Marie Babler
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been utilized to track community infections of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) by detecting RNA of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), within samples collected from wastewater. The correlations between community infections and wastewater measurements of the RNA can potentially change as SARS-CoV-2 evolves into new variations by mutating. This study analyzed SARS-CoV-2 RNA, and indicators of human waste in wastewater from two sewersheds of different scales (University of Miami (UM) campus and Miami-Dade County Central District wastewater treatment plant (CDWWTP)) during five internally defined COVID-19 variant dominant periods (Initial, Pre-Delta, Delta, Omicron and Post-Omicron wave)...
September 8, 2023: ACS ES&T water