{"id":361,"date":"2023-06-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=361"},"modified":"2023-09-14T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:54:07","slug":"wastewater-sampling-in-canada-suggests-covid-case-rate-19-times-higher-than-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/wastewater-sampling-in-canada-suggests-covid-case-rate-19-times-higher-than-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Wastewater sampling in Canada suggests COVID case rate 19 times higher than reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>At the peak of a SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant wave in Ontario, wastewater sampling conducted before the surge suggested that COVID-19 cases were 19&nbsp;times higher than reported because of changes in clinical testing.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\" lang=\"en\">Cheng L, Dhiyebi HA, Varia M, et al. Omicron COVID-19 Case Estimates Based on Previous SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Load, Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada. <i>Emerging Infectious Diseases.<\/i> 2023;29(8):1580-1588. DOI:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2908.221580\" rel=\"noopener\">10.3201\/eid2908.221580<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>At the peak of a SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant wave in Ontario, wastewater sampling conducted before the surge suggested that COVID-19 cases were 19&nbsp;times higher than reported because of changes in clinical testing.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/wastewater-sampling-in-canada-suggests-covid-case-rate-19-times-higher-than-reported\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wastewater sampling in Canada suggests COVID case rate 19 times higher than reported<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,55,119,120,8,14,12,354],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-omicron","tag-ontario","tag-peel","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-wastewater","tag-wastewater-monitoring","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}