Researchers from a biotech startup called Biobot Analytics recently reported that they took samples from a wastewater treatment plant in an unnamed metro area in Massachusetts and found COVID-19 in the sewage at higher levels than expected.
The findings indicate that reported cases in that area are greatly underestimating the number of people who are actually infected.One of the study’s authors is stressing that the public is not at risk of contracting the virus from wastewater and that the study is purely meant to gauge how much of the public is infected by COVID-19.“Even if those viral particles are no longer
News Briefs: Sewage Study Claims Massachusetts Is Undercounting Its COVID-19 Cases
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Apr 15, 2020 |
