{"id":67,"date":"2023-07-29T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=67"},"modified":"2023-09-14T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:42:38","slug":"whats-the-future-of-wastewater-testing-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/whats-the-future-of-wastewater-testing-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the future of wastewater testing for COVID\u201119?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wastewater surveillance became an important tool for detecting COVID-19 outbreaks in communities throughout the pandemic, and it continues to be used in search for coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 as well as other pathogens.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s unclear whether current levels of government funding to monitor wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 will continue beyond next year. Experts are calling on the federal government to create a standardized system for wastewater surveillance to bolster and replace the patchwork being used today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wastewater surveillance became an important tool for detecting COVID-19 outbreaks in communities throughout the pandemic, and it continues to be used in search for coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 as well as other pathogens.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s unclear whether current levels of government funding to monitor wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 will continue beyond next year. Experts are calling on the federal government to create a standardized system for wastewater surveillance to bolster and replace the patchwork being used today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/whats-the-future-of-wastewater-testing-for-covid-19\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What\u2019s the future of wastewater testing for COVID\u201119?<\/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":[96,18,357,119,258,8,14,356,278,12,354,355],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-great-lakes-institute-for-environmental-research","tag-ontario","tag-public-health-agency-of-canada","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-university-of-ottawa","tag-university-of-waterloo","tag-wastewater","tag-wastewater-monitoring","tag-wastewater-surveillance-initiative","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}