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Coronavirus detection: sample city sewage to help diagnose its presence and plan for preparedness

Why guess where the coronavirus is and how many people might be infected if we can use our wastewater systems to give us the facts?

Right now our communities, public policy experts, emergency services and planners want to know where and how far the coronavirus is spreading. Could we be sampling wastewater in our sewage systems to get that information?

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