Coronapod: detecting COVID variants in sewage
Nature Podcast
podcast@nature.com
4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Since early in the pandemic, scientists have searched for signals of SARS-CoV-2 transmission by sampling wastewater. This surveillance method has provided vital information to inform public health responses. But the approach has never been particularly specific - pointing to broad trends rather than granular information such as which variants are spreading where. But now a team from the University of California have created two new tools to sample waste water in much greater detail - and spot variants and their relative concentrations up to two weeks faster than testing-based surveillance methods. In this episode of Coronapod, we discuss the paper and ask how a system like this could help countries around the world respond to the COVID pandemic and beyond.
News: COVID variants found in sewage weeks before showing up in tests
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hear that happy business owner. |
| 0:03.7 | They're whistling because they found a great deal for unlimited calls, texts and data with three business. |
| 0:09.7 | Plans start from just £8 a month with a 4.5% price increase each April. |
| 0:14.6 | Switch to three business for savings that'll give you something to whistle about. |
| 0:19.4 | Voted the UK's best network for business. |
| 0:22.2 | As voted by the mobile industry awards 2024, |
| 0:24.8 | £8 per sim for 10 to 20 sims. |
| 0:26.7 | 24 month plan. Unlimited UK only, |
| 0:29.0 | X 20% fat. |
| 0:30.1 | Look at you with your fancy pants job. |
| 0:33.5 | Sitting at your laptop all day on your video meetings. |
| 0:37.0 | Saying things like, |
| 0:38.1 | let's circle back on this, or can you drill down on that, or deep dive. |
| 0:45.3 | You know what you are, don't you? You're entitled, that's what? |
| 0:50.0 | That's right. Most people who use a screen at work are entitled to claim free eye care. |
| 0:54.9 | Ask your boss about getting one of our vouchers. |
| 0:57.6 | Should have reached out to Specsavers. |
| 1:02.3 | Welcome to Corona Pod. |
| 1:05.7 | In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments. |
| 1:11.6 | And we'll be speaking to experts around the world about research during the pandemic. |
| 1:17.9 | We're entering a new era now. We have new COVID strategies. There's some new unknowns and we've got a vaccine. |
| 1:28.1 | Hello and welcome to CoronaPod. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from podcast@nature.com, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of podcast@nature.com and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.