From the Wastewater Drain, Solid Pandemic Data

“The coronavirus could turn sewage surveillance into a mainstream public health practice. Dr. Johnson, a virologist at the University of Missouri, had spent much of 2020 studying sewage, collecting wastewater from all over the state and analyzing it for fragments of the coronavirus. People with Covid-19 shed the virus in their stool, and as the coronavirus spread throughout Missouri, more and more of it began to appear in the state’s wastewater.”

(Citation: Anthes, E. – From the Wastewater Drain, Solid Pandemic Data – www.nytimes.com (2021)9 May)