A team of researchers, including Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Dr. Leighton Watson and Professor Michael Plank, combined wastewater data with reported case numbers to create a statistical model that could be used to inform public health responses to infectious diseases worldwide.
COVID-19 surveillance program and COVID-19 data collected in Aotearoa New Zealand.
School of Mathematics and Statistics Lecturer Leighton Watson's model provides a clearer picture of the state of an epidemic, disease dynamics and infections in the community. He explains the model could be used by any country where most people are connected to the wastewater system. The model could be applied nationally or regionally and help inform planning of public health responses to multipleWatson noted that over time government restrictions and testing guidelines have been eased."At first, people would test every time they got a sore throat.
Wastewater surveillance has proven to provide valuable data on COVID-19 trends in the community in New Zealand and overseas. This led the research team to investigate how clinical and wastewater data could be combined to provide a better overall picture of the pandemic.
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