Monitoring COVID-19 through a community’s wastewater

Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 09:40 in Health & Medicine

Unlike many of the viruses we routinely encounter, SARS-CoV-2 has a long incubation period. People can be infectious for nearly a week before symptoms appear and prompt them to get tested. Others don’t develop symptoms at all. But these silent infections may still leave a telltale signal whenever we flush our toilets. Researchers working in Patricia […]

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