Wastewater monitoring took off during the COVID-19 pandemic – and here's how it could help head off future outbreaks
- Written by Susan De Long, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
Sampling wastewater can be time-intensive.John Eisele/Colorado State UniversityA community’s sewage holds clues about its COVID-19 burden. Over the course of the pandemic, wastewater surveillance has become an increasingly popular way to try to understand local infection trends.
Microbiologists Susan De Long and Carol Wilusz met and became...