{"id":2494,"date":"2021-12-16T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:04:41","slug":"wastewater-helps-cities-detect-community-spread-of-covid-variants-like-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/2021\/12\/16\/wastewater-helps-cities-detect-community-spread-of-covid-variants-like-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"Wastewater Helps Cities Detect Community Spread of COVID Variants Like Omicron | Newsweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer commented on the recent data from the COVID-19 wastewater tracker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the other side of the U.S., Boston officials have also been utilizing wastewater to track the spread of COVID-19. A report from Sunday indicated that traces of the virus were being detected at extremely high levels, matching the city&#8217;s record-high averages from January. &#8216;This is pretty worrisome,&#8217; Davidson Hamer, an infectious disease specialist at Boston University,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2021\/12\/05\/boston-area-coronavirus-wastewater-levels-are-skyrocketing-this-is-pretty-worrisome\/\" target=\"_blank\">told the<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Boston Herald<\/em><\/a>. &#8216;The wastewater data closely mirrors community transmission rates, and all the indicators are not good right now.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/wastewater-helps-cities-detect-community-spread-covid-variants-like-omicron-1656974\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer commented on the recent data from the COVID-19 wastewater tracker. &#8220;On the other side of the U.S., Boston officials have also been utilizing wastewater to track the spread of COVID-19. A report from Sunday indicated that traces of the virus were being detected at extremely high levels, matching the city&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19434,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[10,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4721,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/4721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}