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SARS-CoV-2 concentration and genomic diversity in wastewater as a leading indicator of COVID-19 outbreak dynamics

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    -99

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $0

  • Funder

    Yale University

  • Principal Investigator

    Jordan Peccia, Nathan Grubaugh

  • Research Location

    United States of America

  • Lead Research Institution

    N/A

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Pathogen: natural history, transmission and diagnostics

  • Research Subcategory

    Environmental stability of pathogen

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Unspecified

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

Since March, Peccia has led a research team that collects samples from wastewater sites in New Haven, and examines them for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the waste, in order to develop a tool for tracking the epidemiology of the COVID-19 outbreak in the broader New Haven population. Grubaugh has been using advanced tools to trace the spread of the virus around the world, and will now employ genomic epidemiology to obtain similarly useful information from these local specimens