Clayton Weingartner
4:13 - 4:53
"we can look at the presence of certain disease pathogens like COVID, which also called SARS-CoV-2, influenza, RSV, measles, and pox. Once we get those results from the lab, it's reported to public health"
“we can look at the presence of certain disease pathogens like COVID, which also called SARS-CoV-2, influenza, RSV, measles, and pox. Once we get those results from the lab, it's reported to public health”
- Speaker
- Clayton Weingartner
- Timestamp
- 4:13 – 4:53
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai
- Captured at
- June 17, 2026
From the transcript
In doing so, you know, we can look at the presence of certain disease pathogens like COVID, which also called SARS-CoV-2, influenza, RSV, measles, and pox. Once we get those results from the lab, it's reported to public health and— Why wastewater monitoring? Early detection of diseases is the first and foremost. It gives us community-level perspective about diseases circulating in the community. It can help communities make public health decisions, and it can be used and paired well with complementary other health metric tools, like clinical health case surveillance, for instance, when you go into the hospital and test positive for the flu, you know, we can compare those results with wastewater data.
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