Poop: Our Newest Ally in the Fight Against COVID-19?

[@jamesedwards9690]

I am so proud of sci show for spreading the hard facts in this Pandemic

[@ethanwood7465]

I’m not surprised mother@$&&ers! Great show.

[@MoarteaLunii]

Hard facts? Lmao.

[@dhruvjat8150]

What is this reply section ffs

[@andrewtataj497]

'hard facts' it's as deadly as a flu, according to the CDC: www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html why are we still locked down again?

[@jamesedwards9690]

@@dhruvjat8150 ikr

[@EverythingScience]

We really out here taking allies wherever we can...

[@beastcarleeto707]

Lmao

[@FLEX0NTV]

We barely have any as it is...Mr. Hankey the Christmas poo can run for pres and have my vote in 2.2 seconds right about now.

[@TioDave]

So much better than Joe.

[@cornbreadloverrr]

Idk about you guys but Trump wasn't doing too bad before 2020 started the apocalypse

[@jeffelkins426]

And this is why we need to pay our wastewater treatment workers more. They deal with a lot of $#!t.

[@valjean2036]

😂

[@troysincomb]

I attended a zoom seminar with one of scientists, Claire Duvallet, that was part of heading this :) She was super nice and the data they found was really promising to track outbreaks with communities that are lacking individual testing. It also, sadly, is a way of seeing how much of the population is currently using opioids :/

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Some of us use opioids because our doctors understand we are battling chronic pain that never goes away. We aren't druggies. We are patients.

[@troysincomb]

@@MaryAnnNytowl I wasn't referring to the small percentage of people that rightfully need it. If 15% of a town is on opioids, but all we know is that the OD death rate is doubling every 5 years, this is a noninvasive way of confirming we need more treatment centers in said town.

[@bcubed72]

@@troysincomb Treatment doesn't do F all, though. I haven't seen data showing that going to rehab is associated with significantly better outcomes than just hunkering down and detoxing. It sure is a lot more expensive, though!

[@emmamemma4162]

You can test for many different kinds of drugs, not just opioids. It's really helpful to know which substances are being used and to what degree when planning public health interventions. In fact, you can even see differences between different days of the week. That will let you know if you have more heavy users or if there are large spikes during the week-ends which would imply "recreational" use.

[@lilaclizard4504]

@@troysincomb isn't it amazing to see the difference in attitudes & expectations in different countries! For some of us the expectation is that this sort of tech will be used productively to save lives, for others they just see ways to jail more people. VERY glad to live in the part of the world I live in!

[@EVEspinosa79]

Not even covid will keep Hank from making a poop related video.

[@davegunner5670]

Why is that?

[@icyfresh_]

@@davegunner5670 It's a joke and we don't know why lol

[@bcubed72]

[tinfoil hat on] "Uncle Sam is in my toilet, monitoring my poops! For now on, I'm just crapping in the cat box..let the Man try and figure THAT one out!"

[@ComputerGarageLLC]

well, you know, felines can test positive too.

[@lilaclizard4504]

@@ComputerGarageLLC lol now that would be an interesting situation! Australia plans on using it to detect even a single person infected, then swab testing the whole community in that sewerage area, imagine if they do that but miss testing the cat that has been trained to poop in the human toilet ROFL!!!!!!

[@BlackBubblesJblack]

👀👀👀

[@amuro996]

Man I was thinking the same thing! No boundaries and who knows what other data they're collecting on us, this way

[@BlackBubblesJblack]

@@amuro996 science is czars will control -section off in different districts based on localized socialize poop

[@ericglimme3362]

You can sample at the plant to get a general Idea of the whole area, or do it for each sewer basin. Sampling at multiple locations upstream of the treatment plant means you can get a higher resolution of the problem. I spent about three months doing sewer sampling last year.

[@mikew1176]

omg I can't believe our work made it onto a SciShow video :DDDDD

[@dschlic1able]

Using this procedure, it is possible to test smaller areas. Each neiborhood has a sewage lift station. Checking the effluent fron that pumping stion will check the neaborhood.

[@josephjeon804]

I was pooping while watching this. I just turned back and said "thanks poop"

[@funnyproductions6800]

*Coronavirus enters chat* Me: Sh*t *Coronavirus left chat*

[@sirBrouwer]

with the testing here in the Netherlands they are also testing if at the waste water centre there is covid-19 they can also look upstream in the network if they can find the source more closely (up to about a neighbourhood)

[@torvamessorem6686]

Ik heb die test moeten doen voor m'n werk. Echt vreselijk pfff

[@lilaclizard4504]

yeh apparently in Australia they already use this tech to detect drug use hotspots, so probably the same thing in the Netherlands but just not really shared with the public that that is already in action? I know I didn't know about the drug part here until they told us as part of the education on this virus

[@kendrickoyola4290]

Que Scubs song: everything comes down to poo

[@Richard_Jones]

Sorry, got to be 'that guy'. Its spelled cue.

[@yvindnystadbakk1416]

*queue 😅

[@Richard_Jones]

@@yvindnystadbakk1416 "Cue(verb)set a piece of audio or video equipment in readiness to play (a particular part of the recorded material)." As in, cue the video of the old man being pushed over. Also as in "somebody has just criticized President Trump. Cue endless whining."

[@kendrickoyola4290]

Correct me if I am wrong but Language is the ability to convey information. Did you understood what I meant? Yes? Okay, good.

[@Porkey_Minch]

@@kendrickoyola4290 You're already being a smartass so I'm gonna say, what is "Scubs"? Do you mean the TV show Scrubs or is that an actual band name? I don't understand so no, not good.

[@JoeyKlu]

I'm a simple human. Sci-Show puts "poop" in the title, I click.

[@Phlegethon]

Sounds complicated

[@mukulsharma5738]

@@Phlegethon :D

[@CTViewer07]

I guess they were onto something when everyone stocked up on toilet paper.

[@davidscott3412]

Bruh 😂😂 im dying

[@limiv5272]

What? How? Those people aren't producing more poop than usual so they won't need that much toilet paper. Some of those people will pass down their stock piles to their children

[@ginnyjollykidd]

😂😂😂

[@ginnyjollykidd]

@randall2020 Not big enough.

[@yesididthis1420]

This is how Hongkong can tract and monitor sars before because of certain outbreak that had happened from sewage leakages. Learned from the past outbreak

[@ninadsekhon3777]

Me watching this video in the toilet: *starship troopers flashbacks* "I'm doing my part"

[@MegaMinerd]

Another poop episode. Why am I so amused? I'm an adult.

[@maneatingbunny1]

Because your human and for some reason we tend to find poop fascinating.

[@MegaMinerd]

I don't think it's the poop itself that amuses me, but the fact they have so many videos on it.

[@infinidominion]

This no laughing matter!!!!😅

[@MegaMinerd]

Yeah. Exactly why I don't know why I'm amused.

[@richardbidinger2577]

Because we all have that inner child that still thinks farts are funny.

[@ameliablack4613]

Those is mind blowing! Why haven't we heard more about this yet?

[@legacyoflore1597]

Keep doing what you guys do. You guys are awesome!

[@rgbii2]

This is pretty interesting, but I have a septic tank. To be included, where do I mail my poo to?

[@trevorpotty5472]

1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington D.C.

[@Torsee]

Trevor Potty Beat me to it! 😂

[@orangechickenz]

Press your fingerprint into it, then go to a friend and flush it down their toilet 👍😄

[@valjean2036]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@CAvcdk9s]

Off topic a bit, but, I see ads for new cleaning services that spray businesses, grocery stores and the like. Your episode on Hand sanitizer talked about how it worked and that it would not contribute to resistant bacteria. But these ads say that the chemical is the same as used in hospitals and we know that that is where some of the resistant bacteria come form. Any ideas on this?

[@Toastmaster_5000]

Anywhere that isn't using a main sewage system is _probably_ remote enough where the people there are unlikely to spread the disease very far.

[@wombatdk]

That was my first thought, except then I realized that e.g. parts of Billings, MT, don't have sewage systems. Then again, it's Montana... haha.

[@emmamemma4162]

In remote and poor areas you can still find communities that are physically very close to each other, with multiple generations living in the same house and so on. A Covid outbreak in such an area would be devastating for the people living there.

[@lilaclizard4504]

@@emmamemma4162 so quarantine the community to start with so the virus can't get in

[@___LC___]

Poop: Not just for C-diff anymore!!!

[@pierrecurie]

or cholera

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Interesting and worthwhile video.

[@andy6041]

Most inform channel ever come across...... Thank you

[@Sharkyktc001]

Huh. I'm a lab worker that's spent the last few weeks working on fecal tests for IBD patients. No one told us there's potentially viable virus in stool samples so we haven't been taking additional precautions like we have with other potentially infectious samples like saliva. I just tested +ve for antibodies despite never showing symptoms. REALLY hoping that's not how I caught it.

[@lilaclizard4504]

probably was, one of the earliest papers on the virus was on infection rates in a hospital in Wuhan, where I think it was 19 staff all contracted the virus from 1 patient. Patient had atypical symptoms, mostly diarrhea & vomiting instead of respiratory, so precautions weren't used on him, hence all the staff treating him got infected. It's been known for many months now that feces should be treated as highly infected & for at least weeks after symptoms have gone & person otherwise recovered too

[@goobernuttridge6476]

I congratulate Hank and company for doing a great job.

[@irvingchies1626]

The reason I've not went outside is actually the brain-poking test being applied and you are telling me now I can simply take a dump? 🤣 Someone please help me write an essay to convince my government to do this!

[@msmeraldi923]

Who has been a fan of SciShow before 2020 💕❤️

[@elizabethCorkins83]

Yes, a few years now & I've seen ALOT of vids of Hank lol...

[@jetjazz05]

wots scifo

[@catserver8577]

This should already be in use to track every health risk that can be followed using this method. Even if not 100 accurate, it's still data that can be obtained virtually free. Our society needs to start not only thinking outside the box like this, but working outside it.

[@XxPlayMakerxX131]

God, I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!! idk why but this is amazing

[@evilferris]

XxPlayMakerxX131 *poop*

[@driftingdruid]

I have a new respect for Sewer Maintenance Personnel

[@eldencw]

Is it possible that individual poop samples could be used to detect the virus earlier than nose swabs?

[@MorgenPeschke]

@shoved to the right? unless they could build this tech into a section of pipe that a plumber could install for you...

[@tohfawalker159]

Morgen Peschke this is something currently under development, why else would sony(?) have developed a way of uniquely identifying someone by their ass hole.

[@lilaclizard4504]

yes www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-17/australia-to-test-sewage-for-coronairus-as-testing-net-widens/12156858 but I would guess that processing the samples probably takes longer, so result to the patient probably isn't any faster. Just stay home if you've been exposed

[@un.gatocurioso]

Media: So, we should love poop?

[@caca5831]

obvio

[@donalddarkorbit6063]

Surely

[@mozartgameplays3378]

LOL

[@conejopro896]

seems legit

[@jinxscript]

"Good old poop" felt that 😢💀

[@billybobg101]

I'm always impressed with how accurate and how you guys make sure to clarify the science mobojombo that could lead people to misunderstanding what ur saying but u guys always clear it up while saying it. It's very effective thanks for being great

[@LolUGotBusted]

Me: sees thumbnail Also me: Can't wait to get a big spoonful of THIS knowledge

[@rjbond007]

2020 plan : visit Australia. 🙌 In 2020 : watching POOP. 💩 Me: 😐

[@KX36]

I'm doing my part by watching this video on the toilet!

[@jonechong6003]

My favorite Covid-19 related headline so far.

[@tessat338]

This could be a good way to track outbreaks at schools, colleges, universities, nursing homes and other care facilities.

[@jacobd9114]

it's fun to think that with new technology like KZbin. We can document event's with crazy depth. For example, a hundred years from now. There could be a new virus, and videos like this could help future generations get through it.

[@roryblake7311]

Some work is being done that indicates urine is an actual vector. If so, it will predict infection in wastewater.

[@chrisboucher1987]

You're Power Hank! (Sounded defensive but I was trying yo pump you up good sir.)

[@marilynlucero9363]

First Llama spit now poop. Who is researching this? The internet people?

[@andreahughes5042]

@shoved to the right? lol by fill their bank accounts you mean making 50k-80k a year for helping mankind? While men/women play games with a ball and make millions just because they are entertainment. 50k-80k a year is not a lot of money at all comparing to people who pretty much do nothing but entertain. www.salary.com/research/salary/posting/cancer-researcher-salary#:~:text=The%20average%20Cancer%20Researcher%20salary,falls%20between%20%2459%2C922%20and%20%2482%2C514.

[@christopherg2347]

Cholera was a scary disease, back in the day. The "1854 Broad Street Pump" did wonders, giving us such things as: - Germ Theory - Epidemiology - The double blind experiement - and basically all sanitation in the mordern world All becuase cholera could spread via water, we lacked sanitation and we were still operating on miasma theory. Epedimiology started because people kept drinking and spreading the diseases via Poop-Water: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

@@andreahughes5042 His post seems very sarcastic. Especially considering the context of the initial question. But yes it's pretty sad that some people are dumb and/or so uneducated that they actually believe stuff like this. Yes, yes, big pharma is evil. But useless supplements and placebos make a hella lot more money from healthy and sick people then medical supplies can make of sick. That's actually part of the problem. That's the whole deal with homeopathy and their heavy lobby. So there is really not much logic left to this "big pharma wants to keep you" sick story. I think the fact that he hinted to "side projects" was kind of a reference to this. After all: If side projects make you the main money anyways why care about preventing a cancer cure in the first place?

[@Keys2Keys]

Thanks for the insight!

[@RandyJames22]

It's our duty to contribute to science.

[@captain_code]

Minute Earth: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!

[@Trainfan1055Janathan]

So next year, will Covid-19 be called, "Covid-20."

[@TravelingBuildingGrowing]

Bruh it's already 2020... it's covid 19 because it was first discovered in 2019. So to answer your question, which hopefully isn't a thing... next year it would be covid 2021. Even if it were 2021 though,it would still be called Covid 19 since as I stated it was discovered in 2019.

[@suzaynnschick158]

As always, thanks for sharing hot research with the greater world!

[@Rodeo_Wizard]

Reminds me of a latest South Park episode. It seems studying one's 💩 can be a life saver.

[@bobito8997]

I genuinely LOLed at the sight of those happy, smiling turds making their jolly way down the sewers

[@How_To_Drive_a_TARDIS]

That program thing is pretty cool thanks

[@scotthendricks5665]

Hey. The institute I did my undergraduate honours research is the Australian sewage study.

[@mtktm]

I want to know if mosquitoes can be vectors for covid.

[@lilaclizard4504]

why are you coughing on mosquitoes? Don't they have enough problems already? Just swat them :))

[@mtktm]

@@lilaclizard4504 it's a serious question. As summer is here, mosquitoes will be swarming

[@pierreabbat6157]

Shouldn't the papers be poo-reviewed instead of pee-reviewed?

[@Allthingsmarinelife]

People order our patties

[@ccraw6826]

Haha

[@bookwrm4evr]

HOOPLAAA

[@videosideas7539]

Interesting information and video! ✌🏼

[@Spectacurl]

Also Costa Rica did it when cases were around 200 so not a big concentration

[@vnitto]

That does not sound like a fun job to be the stool sample checker.

[@HelenaSchmidtBurg]

I never thought about all the information that waste plants have access to. If this can be used to identify vivid it can be used for so much more too. I wonder what the privacy implications of extracting data from waste are. Interesting!

[@3000gtwelder]

Wow! I never thought a Grocery Snake could be so useful.

[@Popclone]

Awesome vid. BUT why not have an automated test lab at the waste recycle centers ? Constantly monitor poop for all type of pathogens. Having such sampler that sends data to a center can always detect new viruses before it even spreads.

[@thomasdoyle38]

thank you sir

[@thenewbrazy9997]

Me : shits in a test tube Also me: mails to nearest health lab

[@WTFSt0n3d]

In Zurich Switzerland they measure the cocain quality in the wastewater that goes around in town (last year we had snow in the summer, 99% lol). back in april they claimed being able to predict a second wave of covid a week earlier then testing

[@Phlegethon]

The pandemic is still going on? I don’t think people still remember

[@karoscgot]

I work in this field! Wooh!

Switzerland uses this systems since some years to determine the use of drugs, like cocaine or weed.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

I don't know if it can be done considering how fragile Sars - CoV-2 is (it doesn't infect mice, and it's hard to grow in a lab), but fecal occult blood tests are common at - home tests where swabs and packaging are sent in the mail along with instructions on how to properly take the sample. If such testing can be successfully done in the home, perhaps a similar one can be done for Sars - CoV-2 as well. Perhaps a tube of medium could be included to inoculate with the swab sample in order to encourage growth of the virus. Then again, if it requires a cell to hijack, this might be impossible to do. A virus is not a bacterium, after all. And if cells are included in the medium, it makes the package a biohazard, and I think that either the post office won't deliver it or there are special regulations for doing so. But if you can find Sars - CoV-2 in sewage, there's got to be something in sewage to sustain the virus.

[@daynehaworth9258]

Really interesting and encouraging research. Does that mean sewage is infectious and that sewage workers or a sewage pipe burst in a community should be treated as highly infectious situations? I say this because I live in South Africa and we often have sewage spilling onto the streets where kids can play in it and then get infected or bring it into the house on their shoes?

[@noelhutchins7366]

one of the four phobias facing modern sciences' dialogue with public are issues of poo trash dying and mind.

[@ScribblesStuff]

So that's why I don't have have it, I've been eating alot of poop lately. Wait.. Oh...

[@Boydus1]

I now understand why our politicians in the UK keep talking s*** about the status of COVID19 cases here.

[@OrigamiMarie]

I wonder how the calculations get thrown off by combined sewer systems (places where the same sewers handle rain water and household waste). Seems like it might throw off the dilution of the virus.

[@richardbidinger2577]

So, Mr Hanky isn't just for Christmas anymore 🚽💨💩🧻👃👩‍⚕️🧫🔬🧬

[@Brownyman]

Insofar as I am concerned nCov19 sounds much better than SarsCOV2

[@oussamabourbab589]

Oh those are allies Powerful allies

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

Well, I’m glad I bury mine. Nobody is going to make money off of me or mark me as a statistic.

[@airforce1328]

Well ... That's very informative.

[@mpart_woodlathe-stuff]

Mommie, he said poop!

[@Vininn126]

Not sure if I'm a fan of the font at 3:50. I can't tell if I dislike it because it's new though. However I'm pretty sure I don't like the k.

[@PendragonDaGreat]

Septic System users be like "well, poo"

[@msmeraldi923]

Who has been a fan of SciShow before 2020 ❤️

[@Dyundu]

Been around enough to remember the episode sponsored by Metamucil, which makes this episode hilarious to me.

[@threeMetreJim]

Hopefully rats can't catch it, or you may never get rid of it. Must be millions of rats in the sewerage system. Didn't someone say you are never more than 6 feet (around 2m) away from a rat?

[@LUCTIANITO]

I 've a lot of doubts about the methodology because usually there are contaminants in those kind of sample that don't let you use PCR without using sometihng that also destroy the RNA so unless they use a technique I'm not aware of wich is very possible I don't know how somebody can perform a PCR on wastewater

[@Tinky1rs]

They take it before water desinfection steps like chlorine/uv/ozone are taken I bet. My guess: filtered sewage (0.22um filter removes all bacteria etc.), add RNAse to break down all free-floating RNA. Wash sample and extract viral RNA from capsids/virions. Proceed with RT-PCR protocol as normal. PCR should be sensitive enough to not be cross-reactive with other RNA viruses.

[@saumitrachakravarty]

I can't remember exactly but I saw a parody ad of a social media tech startup based on poop info tracking. Maybe on Onion News Network or Studio C or College Humor, I dunno! But this seems eerily similar to that.

[@NKerr86]

Not where I typically hear my state mentioned as being forefront. 😂😂😂

[@oliviagreen8853]

Why am I watching this while I’m eating?!

[@bilbobaginsk4626]

Awww I thought you were gonna say the cure was found in 💩.. that would cure the whole year lol 🤣

[@ericsauco1752]

*sees thumbnail image* *does not watch video* *immediately starts eating poop*

[@AccidentalNinja]

I'm not sure how I feel about mentioning data found in pre-prints. What if the peer review reveals it's all bunk?

[@seratheeducatedfeline4227]

I’m kind of interested how this has developed a year on.

[@RagmaticalRachel]

This is perfect use for all the bull being thrown around

[@lh3540]

Real question: embalmers dump blood down drains, would that not skew results?

[@crybebebunny]

Every Pooper in the Area hahaha 😆 🤪🙃😏🤢🤯💩🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️☠🥵😉🤔 Thank you for the information.

[@jamieoglethorpe]

It seems to me that testing samples of sewerage pipelines entering the plant could localize the sites of infection more finely.

[@ScienceCard]

Very informative

[@nezbut7]

this is a great vid