CDC sez "...enabling wastewater surveillance to capture presence of SARS-CoV-2 shed by people with and without symptoms. This allows wastewater surveillance to serve as an early warning that COVID-19 is spreading in a community."
But my hood is having trouble getting samples because of reasons.
3/4 of a year ago we had no equipment, little staff, and those staffz arms were too short to reach down with the testing cup.
Tooters, roll up your sleeves and email your elected ones, at-large and not at-large. This is an easy fix if we just badger, er, I mean, email them to get on it.
I dont see the data @ CDC waste monitoring or DC Health.
I tried calling them (DC Health) about local data not getting to CDC from the DC mosquito monitoring last year. West Nile, malaria managed to achieve newsworthiness recently. And local infections last year pricked up ears, but, you know... reasons. I couldn't get a response from elected ones, or phone answering ones either. Was told everything was ok. So, need help. More voices may break through and allow non-invasive, public testing already in the pipeline.
Here's where the wastewater monitoring story started in May '22, over a year ago, and still no data gets to CDC or us. https://dcist.com/story/22/05/13/dc-councilmembers-investigation-covid-data/
Finally here is Boston's wicked easy site for comparison: https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm.
