Early identification of a COVID-19 outbreak detected by wastewater surveillance at a large homeless shelter in Toronto, Ontario

• Published in: Canadian journal of public health Vol. 114; no. 1; pp. 72 - 79
• Main Authors: Akingbola, Samantha, Fernandes, Reisha, Borden, Susan, Gilbride, Kimberley, Oswald, Claire, Straus, Sharon, Tehrani, Amir, Thomas, Janis, Stuart, Rebecca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.02.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Communication; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 vaccines; Disease Outbreaks; Genetics; Health surveillance; Homeless people; Homelessness; Humans; Ill-Housed Persons; Immunization; Intervention; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Ontario - epidemiology; Outbreaks; Physicians; Pipe cleaning; Population; Populations; Public Health; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Shelters; Solid phases; Special Section on COVID-19: Innovations in Policy and Practice; Surveillance; Tests; Vaccination; Viral diseases; Viruses; Wastewater; Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Monitoring; Water sampling; Ontario; Toronto Ontario Canada; Canada; Ontario Canada; COVID-19; Vulnerable populations; eaux usées; Wastewater; Public health; populations vulnérables; santé publique

Setting Toronto (Ontario, Canada) is a large urban centre with a significant population of underhoused residents and several dozen shelters for this population with known medical and social vulnerabilities. A sizeable men’s homeless shelter piloted a facility-level SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance...