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How to use COVID-19 wastewater data to make safer choices, according to experts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-19-wastewater-data-safer-002804633.html
Should you still wear a mask in public? Is it safe to attend concerts or travel right now? Experts are increasingly recommending that we consult COVID-19 wastewater data to make decisions like these. And, they say, the pandemic revealed the true potential of monitoring what's in our poop.
Wastewater monitoring isn't entirely new. Epidemiologists have been using it to keep track of polio outbreaks for decades, Amy Kirby, Ph.D., microbiologist and program lead for the National Wastewater Surveillance System at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tells TODAY.com.
Before the pandemic, researchers knew they could find evidence of enteric viruses, which infect the gut, in wastewater samples, Yinyin Ye, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering at the University of Buffalo, tells TODAY.com.