Aircraft Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 Variant Surveillance from UK and USA Flights, May 2022

Itay Bar-Or's dataset compares SARS-CoV-2 variant distributions from aircraft wastewater and passenger clinical samples. The data covers 86 international flights arriving in Israel during May 2022, with over 90% of wastewater samples testing positive. It includes statistical correlations between wastewater and clinical variant profiles.

Use Cases

• Correlating wastewater-derived variant frequencies with clinical sample data based on the study's methodology
• Analyzing the sensitivity of aircraft wastewater surveillance at low passenger infection rates mentioned in the results
• Modeling the relationship between viral load and genome coverage as described in the findings

Strengths

• Data is derived from 86 international flights (42 from UK, 44 from USA) providing a specific sample size
• Strong correlations (r=0.84 and r=0.86) between wastewater and clinical variant distributions are reported
• SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in over 90% of aircraft wastewater samples

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the May 2022 collection period

Provenance

Source

Itay Bar-Or

Collection Method

Wastewater and matched clinical data collected from flights arriving in Israel, processed with RT-qPCR and whole-genome sequencing.

Time Range

May 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 05:28:27; freshness should be verified

Geography

Flights from the United Kingdom and United States arriving in Israel.