AFFORDABLE, EASY, FAST COVID DETECTION FOR WASTEWATER

LOW DETECTION LEVELS

With the varying concentration of the COVID-19 virus, detection rate determines the accuracy of COVID severity in a community. Typically, there is a concentration of 20 viruses/mL in samples. However, many leading companies only test for 50 or even up to 500 viral copies per mL, causing them to miss potential outbreaks. Many would have missed most of the entire pandemic! Water Lens can accurately test with as few as 3 viral copies per mL (and improving).

AFFORDABLE

Water Lens samples are only $250 per sample (volume discounts are available), while competing companies cost upwards of $1,200 per sample. Water Lens has innovated on the sample preparation aspect and passed the savings on to its customers.

ACCURATE TRENDING

Water Lens offers a 24-hour turnaround, which provides its customers with the most lead time possible. In fact, our customers have been able to detect increases in infection rates in subsets of their cities before the virus spread out of control.

IS YOUR WASTEWATER LAB BLIND TO THE PANDEMIC?

Nearly half of the labs in the United States cannot detect levels of COVID-19 below the red line, which means they won’t be able to tell you a problem exists until it is too late. Only 10% of labs can measure levels below the green line, which is critical to controlling the pandemic.

Is your lab one of the 10%? Water Lens is.

You can’t trend your infection rates, if you can’t see them…

 

DATA NORMALIZATION IS KEY TO TRENDING INFECTION LEVELS FROM WEEK-TO-WEEK

Normalization accounts for variation in concentration due to weather events, industrial activity, agricultural activity, and other wastewater sources of non-human origin. Without normalization, data can swing wildly from one day to the next, while having very little relation to infection rate trends in the area,

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ADVANCE NOTICE OF OUTBREAKS

Accurate wastewater data can provide an average of 5.5 days advanced notice of an increase in infection rates (and as much as 14) which allows cities to target their testing efforts to slow the spread

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