Public Health with Laurie Garrett: Wastewater Testing

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Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Laurie Garrett discusses the role of wastewater testing in public health and her idea of a device that could be used by anyone to analyze water samples. This podcast is not an episode of TWiV, but I thought it would be of interest to listeners. Laurie Garrett and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support MicrobeTV with a Spike t-shirt (Vaccinated.us) Coliform testing of water in Florida (YouTube) Declining cost of genome sequencing (Illumina) National wastewater surveillance system (CDC) Advances in detection of viruses in wastewater (Med Express) Wastewater monitoring comes of age (Nature) Monitoring monkeypox virus in wastewater (Med Express) Poliovirus wastewater surveillance in NY (Dept of Health) Wastewater surveillance in NYS (Dept of Health) Estimating norovirus infections through wastewater (Water Res) Estimating antimicrobial resistant bacteria through latrine water (Antimicro Res Inf Control) Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions and comments to [email protected]

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0:00.0	from microbe TV this is public health with Lori Garrett recorded on September 22nd, 2022.
0:14.1	I'm Vincent Racken-Ello and joining me today from New York. Lori Garrett, welcome.
0:19.4	Hi Vincent. Good to see you again.
0:22.0	Always.
0:22.8	My Lori was last on 12 number 773 and we had a wonderful wide-ranging conversation about
0:32.8	your career and your thoughts about public health and I recommend listeners go to check that
0:38.8	out.
0:40.3	Lori 773, we are now on 940 episodes so we're really moving quickly.
0:51.3	And we hope that this is the first in a series of discussions about public health which
0:57.0	is Lori's specialty and particularly today we're going to talk about wastewater testing
1:03.7	and what that means and what it can be used for.
1:08.2	But before we do that I want to remind everyone that if you're interested in celebrating
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1:32.5	So go over to vaccinated.us, pick your t-shirt.
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1:38.4	Put it in your cart and then use the promo code microbe TV on checkout and the proceeds
1:44.6	will come to us and we really appreciate their support of our science programming here
1:49.8	and thanks to Matt for coming up with this idea.
1:53.4	Okay Lori, everyone seems to know about wastewater testing these days but what's the history
2:01.3	of it at least in the US?
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