What could help hundreds of cities across the U.S. detect coronavirus in its communities? Human waste.
All that's required? Human waste.
They need a better understanding of “how much virus is shed in the stool” when someone is infected, said Newsha Ghaeli, president and co-founder of Biobot Analytics, a startup company formed by a group of researchers with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that is heavily involved in the emerging science.
Most prolific is Biobot Analytics, which worked with local governments to track the prevalence of opioid use through wastewater testing before shifting focus to COVID-19 this year. It monitors wastewater data from 400 communities across 42 states. In early April, the utility in Albany, Oregon, started sharing with Biobot weekly samples of pre-treated sewage from the Albany-Millersburg Water Reclamation Facility.
City health officials said the Detroit study found viruses in the sewer collection system about one to two weeks before those same viruses showed up in health department data.
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