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Professor Lawrence Goodrich, thank you very much for taking

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the time.

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Good afternoon. So you're with the University of Guelph and you're

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part of the Wastewater, A group that still looking at what we're

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finding in, in the water.

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And what have you found what we found.

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Is that Wastewater is is a very reliable indicator of the amount

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of people who are infected with covid-19.

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And we can use that to determine or gain a rough estimate,

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at least of the people in our geographical region that have

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covid-19. What if you noticed since the new Omicron variants

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has arrived. So, prior to Micron, we were seeing a decrease

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in the waste, where signal songs from the summer of 2021.

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The late summer 2021 General decrease in in the in the signal

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And then in late November to early December,

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when when the Omicron variants was identified as we start to see

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an increase in signal that signal.

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Increase the through December and the signal has remained

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high with our current testing data in some,

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in, some municipalities are, we're talkin to the University of

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Ryerson, and they said that they've noticed that it that

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it's pink. The little, I have you at all noticed,

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any peak in, in how much coke would you finding in my,

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in Wastewater? Generally, I would agree that it appears that.

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Al based on what you've seen in the past minute,

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and then it has gone on for so long.

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They said what you've seen in the past.

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What's the correlation between what you see,

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and how it plays out in the clinical data and are your readings

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basically foreshadowing? What we see in terms of cases as the

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winds, were similar increases that is followed by an increase

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in hospitalizations in the same.

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Geographic region. How much of a difference does this make right

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now considering the testing isn't happening as much as you know,

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what was happening?

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Say, 34 weeks ago.

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So I think this is

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Where Wastewater surveillance is really shining.

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I've always said that Wastewater surveillance is it is another

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tool in our tool box.

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That is it should not be looked at as being a replacement

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for clinical testing.

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It can add an additional information.

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However, now that has really been severely reduced Wastewater

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surveillance is basically the only tool we have to ask him if

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the infection but I think I might in my opinion Wastewater

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Bay surveillance has never been more important and it will be

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History important as we move forward.

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And I think because of this, we're seeing a number of Public

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Health units across Ontario, really begin to rely on Wastewater

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surveillance to gain an understanding of what's going on in their

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respective communities.