“The academic labs have been waiting to shift gears to research.” Currently, any research is being done “off the side of our desks” while the business of day\u002Dto\u002Dday testing occupies the labs.
Delatolla would like to see Ontario’s program mature into something that is better integrated into the public health system and which uses provincial labs or commercial labs to manage the day-to-day surveillance.
“The academic labs have been waiting to shift gears to research.” Currently, any research is being done “off the side of our desks” while the business of day-to-day testing occupies the labs. April 2021: Rob Delatolla poses in front of a pumping station used to collect wastewater samples that are screened for COVID.Meanwhile, a grant is enabling Delatolla’s lab and Ottawa Public Health to continue monitoring wastewater for influenza, respiratory syncytial virus , measles, mpox and polio. COVID-19 continues to circulate, but transmission of other viruses have dropped significantly, or have not shown up, with the exception of a small amount of influenza B, said Delatolla.
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