some 20 million children in the u.s. will go to bed tonight without a father in the home. citing statistics is easy. fixing the problem is not. bret? bret: william, thank you. fentanyl is no longer an underground crisis but a new method of combating it has gone underground, literally, through sewers. communities around the country are exploring how sewage testing can help track where fentanyl and other substance use are surging. correspondent alexandria hoff shows us tonight. from the depths of a less than fresh scented tank, a sesnapshot of public health is collected. samples of raw sewage are pulled over 24 hours and sent to a lab for what is essentially a community drug test. instead of one person, you are testing 2500 people. untreated waste reveals where
Members of the Pittsfield Board of Health said at a recent meeting that the city s daily coronavirus case data shows “a shadow of what is going on” and that Pittsfield s
Public health officials monitor sewage in local communities to track COVID, polio, flu and more. But no one asks the people being monitored for their permission – raising some questions and concerns.
Pittsfield Health Department Director Andy Cambi offered slight optimism during a presentation to the City Council on Tuesday evening, saying that data from the city s weekly sewage testing show that
Over 800 sites across the US report coronavirus data from sewage to the CDC. Here’s how this kind of surveillance system works and what it can and can’t tell you.