Horn, SuranieVogt, BiancaPieters, RialetBouwman, HindrikBezuidenhout, Carlos2020-06-262020-06-262020Horn, S. et al. 2020. Impact of potential COVID-19 treatment on South African water sources already threatened by pharmaceutical pollution. Environmental toxicology and chemistry, 39(5):1305-1306. [https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4734]0730-72681552-8618 (Online)http://hdl.handle.net/10394/34919https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/etc.4734https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4734AAfter a cluster of human pneumonia cases in Wuhan City (China) on 7 January 2020, a novel coronavirus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), was identified as the causative agent of the disease COVID‐19 (World Health Organization 2020). It quickly became a global pandemic and continues to rapidly spread across the world, having infected almost 4 million confirmed cases and caused more than 265 000 deaths at time of publication, far surpassing the total cases of SARS and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)enArticle