SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2020
THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD — 3B
Governor approves Washington County’s reopening plan
to reopen on June 1.
The county submitted its reopen-
Gov. Kate Brown has given the
ing plan last week showing that it
green light to Washington County’s
met all the governor’s criteria for
phase 1 reopening plan, meaning the reopening except the required num-
county can begin allowing bars and ber of contact tracers in place — 90
restaurants, gyms, malls, salons, bar- for Washington County. The county
bershops and other personal services said that by May 29, it would have
By Ted Sickinger
The Oregonian/OregonLive
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Massachusetts, Australia and
France.
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But in those cases and in
For instance, the World
the Yale study, the data can
Health Organization has
only tell one part of the story.
used sewage samples to moni-
Peccia emphasized that
tor for polio outbreaks. And
the sewage sludge data is
in Oregon, researchers have
“a unique piece of informa-
used wastewater samples to tion,” not a replacement for
map drug use.
traditional clinical testing.
Even within the COVID-19 Because the sewage data is
research, there have been
not individualized, it can’t
similar wastewater studies in tell offi cials where to start
enough investigators in place to meet
another of the governor’s contact
tracing criteria, the ability to trace 95
percent of new cases within 24 hours.
Washington County’s reopening
would leave Multnomah County, the
state’s most populous county, as the
only one yet to reopen. Multnomah
the contact tracing process or
who to direct into quarantine.
Clinical testing is “irreplace-
able,” Peccia said.
But the sludge samples
could be used to predict COV-
ID-19 upticks and potentially
give offi cials time to prepare
before a cluster of cases hits.
This lead time could be life-
saving.
Peccia said he sees this
data as an additional tool
County offi cials say they plan to
submit their own reopening plan to
the governor’s offi ce on June 5 with
the aim of entering phase 1 reopen-
ing on June 12.
In phase 1, gathering sizes are
still limited to 25 and businesses
need to operate under sector-specifi c
that offi cials could use to in-
form their reopening plans —
or, if an area does see a spike
in cases, as an early warning
that those reopenings need to
be rolled back.
“It could be helpful ...
because these are tough deci-
sions to make,” Peccia said. “If
you look at other states, it is
not a stretch to imagine that
the curve could go back up.”
Because Peccia and his
guidance that lays out safety require-
ments and protocols for employees
and customers.
Washington County’s Latino com-
munity has been hit especially hard
by COVID-19 and accounts for more
than half the county’s 700 positive
cases to date.
team pulled samples from
what is known as “primary
sewage sludge” — which is
a more concentrated form of
sewage -- the process they
used is fairly straightforward
and inexpensive, he said. He
thinks the process is “easily
scaleable” and could be used
in other municipalities across
Connecticut.
For now, Peccia and his
team have continued col-
lecting daily samples at the
treatment plant in New
Haven, and they plan to pres-
ent their data to the city next
week.
“All of us wanted to do
something that’s useful and
really hoped that it could
somehow work out well
enough that it could be useful
for at least the city that we’re
living in,” Peccia said. “And I
think it could be.”
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