Actual paper:
Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage / Medema, et al.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.20045880v...
Check out Table 4.
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#12That is interesting. Do we now what the rate at which the virus dies in water?
You don't need live viruses, just their RNA.
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#14Maybe. Similar to drug testing an entire city using sewage.
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#15Actual paper: Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage / Medema, et al. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.20045880v... Check out Table 4.
Seeing papers like that, I really appreciate what tex did for scientific publishing. (Yes, I understand formatting was not their top concern right now)
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#16Interesting. That's also been done for recreational drugs. And artificial vanilla flavoring. I wonder whether sampling from sewage pumping units could be done. That might produce higher resolution data. But getting representative samples would be harder. You'd probably need to take large samples, mix, and subsample.
Can you talk about the vanilla a little more? I don’t get that one.
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#17Actual paper: Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage / Medema, et al. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.20045880v... Check out Table 4.
Seeing papers like that, I really appreciate what tex did for scientific publishing. (Yes, I understand formatting was not their top concern right now)
Maybe, equally we have every idiot going to the useless John Hopkins site because it looks pretty.
I guess it's an arms game in part.
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#18I’ve been wondering about this. It would be especially interesting if, after we come out of lockdown, we could sample sewage at many points as the sewer comes together. You might be able for example to identify an infected block and then go around to give individual swabs to each resident if the block came up positive.
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#19Interesting. That's also been done for recreational drugs. And artificial vanilla flavoring. I wonder whether sampling from sewage pumping units could be done. That might produce higher resolution data. But getting representative samples would be harder. You'd probably need to take large samples, mix, and subsample.
Can you talk about the vanilla a little more? I don’t get that one.
> In the area around Puget Sound, the University of Washington team found, the spicy residues that remain in wastewater end up flowing into the sound's inland waterways.
> Of all the flavors trickling downstream, artificial vanilla dominates the sound, Keil said. For instance, the team found an average of about six milligrams of artificial vanilla per liter of water sampled.
> The region's sewage runoff contains more than 14 milligrams of vanilla per liter. This would be like spiking an Olympic-size swimming pool with approximately ten 4-ounce (113.4-gram) bottles of artificial vanilla.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170225090427/http://news.natio...
Re: Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
#20Actual paper: Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage / Medema, et al. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.20045880v... Check out Table 4.
Seeing papers like that, I really appreciate what tex did for scientific publishing. (Yes, I understand formatting was not their top concern right now)
That is the default MS Word theme on Mac (unsure if Windows also uses that color scheme as the default). No real excuse to have multiple tables labeled "Table 1“.