D&D and the rising pandemic

[Garthanos]

Do a lot of universities in the US have wastewater testing? I think ours does, but I don't remember ever seeing them publish what they found.

I do not know the prevalence but universities do seem to be the main ones engaged with it

SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 Wastewater Testing

Learn how scientists from around the world are monitoring the community-level spread of SARS-CoV-2 through wastewater testing.

www.bio-rad.com

The general public does not really hear about it either though

 

[Umbran]

I like hearing about contact tracing and similar things that ahem I think we hardly ever see in the US.

Contact tracing has little benefit in times of broad community spread.

Do a lot of universities in the US have wastewater testing? I think ours does, but I don't remember ever seeing them publish what they found.

I don't think a lot of universities in the US have wastewater systems separate from the municipalities in which they reside. And while officials do use wastewater testing as a guide to where hotspots are going to develop, I don't know there's a lot of benefit to individuals in publishing details.

 

[Cadence]

I don't think a lot of universities in the US have wastewater systems separate from the municipalities in which they reside. And while officials do use wastewater testing as a guide to where hotspots are going to develop, I don't know there's a lot of benefit to individuals in publishing details.

Now I need to check ours. I'm guessing they just take samples as it leaves the building.

Is the benefit for the wastewater testing results a lot different than giving the aggregated results of the individual tests? (We got weekly campus updates on that).

 

[Umbran]

Is the benefit for the wastewater testing results a lot different than giving the aggregated results of the individual tests? (We got weekly campus updates on that).

That would depend on the number of individual tests. Wastewater testing allows you to test a large area without need to deal with individuals. It is terribly convenient that way.

If you are weekly testing everyone on campus, that would surely be better than wastewater testing.

 

[Cadence]

That would depend on the number of individual tests. Wastewater testing allows you to test a large area without need to deal with individuals. It is terribly convenient that way.

If you are weekly testing everyone on campus, that would surely be better than wastewater testing.

It was once a month testing of all faculty (and in theory all students) on campus in the middle of the pandemic. (Fewer before the infrastructure was in place, and fewer once this past summer and all the vaccines hit).

 

[Umbran]

It was once a month testing of all faculty (and in theory all students) on campus in the middle of the pandemic. (Fewer before the infrastructure was in place, and fewer once this past summer and all the vaccines hit).

Okay, then I would not be surprised if they also did wastewater testing. That's infrequent enough to leave gaps that wastewater tests could help fill.

 

[Zardnaar]

I like hearing about contact tracing and similar things that ahem I think we hardly ever see in the US.

Yeah they got 7000/day tests fairly quickly. Think our best was 20k/day. They also closed down the travel bubble with the Australian states with outbreaks.

We've canceled all plans on foreign travel anyway. Maybe Rarotonga depending on how things go.

Leaving is easy enough getting back is hard and all the quarantine facilities are booked out until November then it's Christmas time.

Getting stuck in Rarotonga not the worst thing lol.

 

[Zardnaar]

This is our Gamenight location this week.

Derp.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Showoff!

 

[Zardnaar]

Showoff!

Gamestore owner showing off on Facebook. Yu GI Oh beat D&D and Magic events in turnout.

Flesh and Blood also seems popular locally.