Alexandria Boehm: Wastewater helps reveal COVID’s real reach
The Future of Everything
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Stanford Professor Allie Bame is using wastewater to monitor the COVID pandemic. She says that when we flush things down the toilet or put things down the sink, it contains a lot of our bodily fluids which can include bacteria and viruses. As long as you know who's contributing to the sewer pipe, you can figure out how much COVID is in that population.
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