Let's chat about tracking COVID-19 in our wastewater
Nov 19, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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Episode description
Listen in to how the latest in technology and research in monitoring daily wastewater is helping to predict and track COVID-19 and variants that may be present in Washoe County.
In fact, since June 2021, sampling through sewer systems can determine a rise or decline in the virus and variants before testing takes place at clinics and those spikes or dips are recorded.
Guest Dr. Krishna Pagilla, an environmental engineering professor at the University and leader of the study, talks with us about this innovative research, the science behind it and how this effort is serving as a model for others.
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