​Research Shows Wastewater Testing Improves Predictions for COVID-19 Hospital Admissions​

​Research Shows Wastewater Testing Improves Predictions for COVID-19 Hospital Admissions​

Pruthvi Kilaru, who earned his master’s of public health in 2020 and is now a third-year medical student at Des Moines University in Iowa, is shown here collecting wastewater for COVID-19 testing.

Testing wastewater for COVID-19 provides a better forecast of new COVID hospital admissions than clinical data, according to a Syracuse University research team led by postdoctoral researcher Dustin Hill.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a burden on the U.S. health care system since...

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