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"The Ontario government abruptly ended its wastewater surveillance program earlier than planned this summer, despite having funding in place until the end of September & being warned that the move could leave gaps in crucial information for public health, internal documents indicate." 👀🚨 1/?

Ontario dropped wastewater testing early, with no plan for feds to step in: documents
Ontario dropped wastewater testing early, with no plan for feds to step in: documents

Ontario ended its wastewater testing program earlier than planned this summer, despite having funding in place until the end of September.

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Ford seems to be onto something with the free license plates and beer availability being the most pressing issues of our time.

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This is an important story from the Citizen & it got lost because it came out on a long weekend. My best flack guess as to why the program was ended early is optics. Political staff feared it'd look worse to cancel the program after a steep return-to-school surge might have started. #OnPoli 2/?

The program, overseen by the Ministry of the Environment, provided an early warning signal to health officials about the spread of COVID-19, influenza, RSV and other infectious diseases, based on wastewater testing.

Documents obtained through access to information by the Ottawa Citizen indicate that the province’s hasty decision last spring to end the program came before Ontario’s Ministry of Health had even begun negotiations with the federal government about taking over wastewater surveillance.

It also required terminating existing agreements with the academic laboratories that did the surveillance.
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Mostly #OnHealth. Gardener. Former flack. Fluent in spin. I media scan, therefore I am. Mister Rogers/Mary Oliver stan. Born at 326 ppm. Old married broad. Mom. Dogs' person. Canadian. she/her #BlackLivesMatter #YNWA
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