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If my earlier career in Epidemiology taught me anything it’s Pandemic viruses are bell weathers and pathogenic Bacteria are grim reapers. Together these and other microbes constantly monitor the environment and their hosts and strike when the environment and surveillance sentinels are in disarray.
Fortunately, wastewater based surveillance methods gave us a little nudge back towards safety, but if we fail to activate to protect our species when the alarms ring those networks are powerless to prevent catastrophes and we all know the current healthcare and public health systems aren’t equipped to save all of us.