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Falling COVID counts in wastewater could signal end of omicron wave
Jan 20, 2022
https://ctmirror.org/2022/01/19/is-the-covid-wave-cresting-the-answer-is-in-the-sewage/
Of all the methods of measuring the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, one has been consistently reliable: the amount of the virus in sewage.
Yale University researchers have been sampling wastewater plants in Connecticut since the early stages of the pandemic, and the latest numbers from that testing have one official “cautiously optimistic” the omicron wave has finally crested in the state.
The recent data provide a clear example of the valuable insight that the sewage testing can provide to public health officials who are trying to deal with a pandemic that has stretched into its third year. But that type of analysis may not last much longer if Yale doesn’t find additional financing for its work.