RE: GBTweets9 Aug 2020 07:57
This is definitely not primitive. It appears that this actually mirrors what is being set to achieve from SKIN and partners. In fact in this pilot test in Israel they can identify the virus within wastewater through accurate testing.
It should be noted that this a big team that has come together through Ben Gurion University from all fields.
I suspect that there will be many companies across the globe putting contracts up for tender. This is not necessarily a bad thing as it shows a huge demand but it will be highly competitive.
An extract from this link:
'Kando, with its partners, utilized an interdisciplinary approach to develop an innovative method of monitoring cities’ wastewater in the sewer network upstream – from the municipal wastewater towards the city itself, utilizing a vast network of sensors in manholes, original algorithms and artificial intelligence. As a result of Kando’s experience measuring industrial and other waste streams in municipal sewage systems, researchers were able to accurately measure concentrations of the virus remnants and determine the approximate number of those suffering from infection by factoring in the necessary data – including industrial effluent which destroys the virus, and sewage flow, which dilutes the virus’ concentration. The researchers include world-renowned scientists at Ben Gurion University and the Technion who come from a variety of disciplines including virology, water engineering, medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics and public health policy. They were able to quantify and delineate this environmental and epidemiological data, allowing them to narrow down measurements to neighborhoods, and potentially streets.'