Wastewater testing for COVID-19 has continued around the nation, including testing at 22 treatment facilities in Minnesota thanks to the University of Minnesota Medical School in Duluth.
The university is four months into its monitoring program, according to Duluth News Tribune, and researchers say the presence of viral particles indicates increasing prevalence of COVID-19 across the state.The results are helping to predict outbreaks as well. Back in June, wastewater samples showed that cases were increasing in Mankato and Minneapolis before the state linked the increase to four taverns in the cities.“We kind of started seeing things that indicated that something was
News Briefs: Wastewater Testing Predicts Minnesota COVID-19 Outbreak
Also in this week's water and wastewater news, a gasification plant in North Dakota is selling beverage-grade CO2 to water treatment plants due to a CO2 shortage
Aug 19, 2020
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