Since summer 2020, the state has looked for the virus’s genetic material in municipal wastewater systems to get an idea of how many people are infected.
Colorado is going to use wastewater sampling in a handful of individual buildings — including schools and hospitals — this fall to see if it can produce information about COVID-19 that the participants can actually use., the state has looked for the virus’s genetic material in municipal wastewater systems to get an idea of how many people are infected.
Unlike testing with nasal swabs, wastewater sampling can’t identify whether any individual has the virus. But since people shed the virus in their stool whether they have symptoms or not, it gives an idea of how many cases are going undetected because individuals feel fine or aren’t able to get to a testing site, said Rachel Jervis, an epidemiologist who leads the wastewater project at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
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