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Coronavirus detected in lake

kiwibird

kiwibird

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This should not really be a surprise as there was an article on flutrackers a week or so ago by Michael Coston that showed lakes in colder climes were overwinter reservoirs for avian flu. Still - makes you hope the water suppliers are on top of their chlorination....

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/covid19-...PoU-M6Eq69Z6-3vBWKbUb20Eh3RKHaOGZfLU1g4IcWxfO

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The virus was detected by a group led by Richard Melvin, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical School, in mid-September. Melvin and his team have been sampling water from various beaches on Lake Superior since July 4 on a weekly basis as a partnership with Minnesota Sea Grant, an organization that works to enhance the state’s coastal environment. The team hadn’t found the virus during weekly tests, but, on Sept. 11, that changed.

The research team detected SARS-CoV-2 at 100 to 1,000 copies per liter, or 10,000 times lower than levels observed in wastewater. “I was surprised and not surprised,” Dr. Richard Melvin, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, tells Yahoo Life. “We were testing a hypothesis that beachgoers would bring this on their bodies into the water, but when you see it on the machine, there’s this sinking feeling.”
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I doubt very much that Coronavirus was detected in a lake. RNA from a coronavirus I can believe. If this is the case then the lake water is not a health concern, at least from SARS-CoV-2 or seasonal cold CoVs.
I wish there was some way to stop the media, and some scientist, from claiming a PCR detection is the same as finding a virus, if they sent samples to a BSL3 lab and they could infect cells then that really would justify the headline, and be something worth reporting. A loaded gun in dangerous but spent shell casings, not so much.
 
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