To find one of Ontario’s big pandemic wins, just look down your toilet
Eric J. Arts is the Canada Research Chair in HIV pathogenesis and viral control and professor of microbiology and immunology at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University.
Fortunately, the province had an ace up its sleeve that could provide an accurate estimate of COVID-19 cases in almost every municipality and city in Ontario: our poop. The Ontario waste water surveillance program, in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada , has become a model for governments around the world. While waste water testing was performed by academic institutions in nearly every high-income country, there was no central co-ordination and routine reporting. The Centers for Disease Control in the United States, the Public Heath System of the U.K.
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