Sewage-testing robots process wastewater faster to predict COVID-19 outbreaks sooner - 0 views
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By using a sewage-handling robot, our laboratory has been able to detect coronavirus in wastewater 30 times faster than nonautomated large-scale systems.
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When clinical studies emerged showing that people who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 shed the virus in their stool, the sewer seemed like an obvious place to look for it.
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Surveillance depends on concentrating the viral particles from the wastewater to detect these low levels.
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