@joannehewittnz
Interested in viruses especially those in poo!! Mainly norovirus, HAV, SARS-CoV-2, polio, rotavirus. Food and environmental virology. Wastewater surveillance. Love a good RT-qPCR & cell culture. Should read books. Reluctant parkrun runner. Wife & mum. NZ.
We have three wet lab genomics positions open, all supporting our sequencing for public health
Two permanent snr tech roles will be trained for accredited Illumina and ONT workflows (apply for both)
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A fixed term scientist position to work with @joannehewittnz.bsky.social and I to help build a more flexible and responsive set of sequencing assays for both wastewater and clinical samples.
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Hit me up if you have questions: david.winter@phfscience.nz
bsky.app/profile/joan... In New Zealand, while not detected in clinical samples to date, BA.3.2 has been detected in wastewater collected from a few sites, albeit sporadically and at low levels, over the last 2 months.
Just a few. At a low percentage.
Yes.. present but below 1%. Only up to a few sites positive though.
www.poops.nz updated New Zealand COVID-19 wastewater surveillance, levels and variants.
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Check it out β¦latest on wastewater COVID-19 surveillance
Sorry but we donβt publish to that level of detail anymore. Letβs see what happens in the next few weeks of samples that come through the doorβ¦
Thanks David :-)
NZ wastewater COVID19 surveillance dashboard update. poops.nz The levels detected are relatively low and there is a mixed bag of variants tracked and reported, including the first detection of BA.3.2 in NZ (albeit just in one sample a few weeks ago & hasnβt been detected since.
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Updated NZ wastewater COVID19 surveillance Dashboard. We do update it every other week, (& sorry for not posting on it though). Variants updated every 4 weeks. MC.10.2 showing a fair proportionβ¦Check out poops.nz. FYI- Polio wastewater surveillance ongoing too & nothing to report there - all good!
Due to the timing of the Christmas and New Year holidays etc, many sites had only one collection a week, including the Wellington ones, so some caution in interpretation is required. Much prefer it when we can test two per week.
And apologies for the delay⦠something to do with a break for everyone concerned! :-)
poops.nz Updated NZ wastewater COVID-19 surveillance dashboard. Up to week ending 5 January. Decrease in number of samples collected over the holidays as may be expectedβ¦.Samples from 9 sites instead of 11. Variant data will be updated in 2 weeks.
poops.nz Updated dashboard -New Zealand wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. Weekending 15 December 2024 and on variants, and now reflects current sites & regions. Historical data accessed via historic.poops.nz All time, 18 months, 6 months & 6 weeks options. December reported case data provisional.
I will post an wastewater update (levels and variants) as soon as I can. Hopefully tomorrow- sorry for the delay.
Keeps you on your toes !
Yes⦠updated today to fill in the variant gap!
poops.nz New Zealand wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. Variants tracked include XEC - noting a variation on proportions on variants week on week can be expected especially when low concentrations of total virus levels are being detected. (Apologies for delays and absence of notifications).
poops.nz Updated dashboard - New Zealand wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. From 11 sites, 10 submitted samples last week, so slightly down in % coverage. A sequence run planned for next week (including next weeks samples, so variants in next update).
We need to make changes to the dashboard yet so sorry if itβs confusing at the moment. Btw- we worked especially hard last week to get the variant sequencing done on last weeks samples along with the previous weeks, so that they could be reported this week.
poops.nz Updated dashboard -New Zealand wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. Week ending 7 July. Nationally, levels decreased again. Levels at most of 25 sites tested are less than 4 weeks ago. Variant analysis on up to 20 sites show that KP.3 is at 65% nationally by week ending 30 June.
poops.nz Updated dashboard -New Zealand wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. Weekending 19 May 2024. Increase πtrend nationally in SARS-CoV-2 RNA levels in wastewater. KP.3 was at 22% weekending 5 May (delay due to seq machine issues). Another update on variants next week.
poops.nz Updated dashboard -New Zealand wastewater surveillance of COVID-19. Weekending 28 April. Levels & variants on dashboard. Moderate decline in levels over last month(s). KP.2, KP.3 & JN.1.16 added as tracked variants (determined to w/e 21 April). Interesting
poops.nz New Zealand wastewater surveillance of COVID-19. Weekending 21 April. Levels & variant displayed on easy to use dashboard. Moderate decline over last month in levels evident. Variants updated next week. Link to dataβ¦https://github.com/ESR-NZ/covid_in_wastewater
From the USAβ¦two more examplesβ¦.again same story of JN.1. Incredible takeover story! Purple (left) and red (right) is
poops.nz NZ wastewater surveillance. Still COVID-19 testing wastewater :-) Levels & variant displayed on easy to use dashboard. JN.1 dominates. Levels steady (ish). This surveillance informs on COVID-19 (for example) without the need to swab anyone. Simple.
poops.nz Week ending 21 Jan_wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. Overall, a slight downward trend observed but noting fluctuations over the last month or so, and site differences (πand π). Nationally JN.1 at ~70% (up to 14 Jan) and similar (more or less) % at all sites.
www.poops.nz is the wastewater COVID-19 surveillance dashboard link