Detecting Community Spread of COVID-19 in Wastewater
One of the reasons the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has been worse in the United States than almost every other country it’s hit around the world is that America fell drastically behind with testing, taking far too long to take meaningful action to find where the virus had already surfaced. This made early containment impossible, and resulted in a testing shortage that continues to persist. Due to how quickly the virus has made its presence felt on an international scale, there has been a global collaborative scientific effort like nothing ever seen before to find ways to detect COVID-19,... View Article