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2 March 2021COVID-19 spread tracked via a rapid, large-scale early wastewater surveillance alert system
Detecting COVID-19 outbreaks before they spread could help contain the virus and curb new cases within a community. This week in mSystems, an open-access Journal of the American Society for Microbiology, researchers from the University of California San Diego describe a mostly-automated early alert system that uses high-throughput analysis of wastewater samples to identify buildings where new COVID-19 cases have emerged—even before infected people develop symptoms.
