Home tests make tracking COVID harder. WNY health officials are turning to the sewers instead

Ian Bradley, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, and a core faculty member in the UB RENEW Institute, spoke to WBFO about UB’s efforts tracking COVID-19 through wastewater.

“We’re seeing some of the highest levels of SARS-Covid-2 in wastewater we’ve seen in quite some time,” he said. “We have levels of SARS-covid-2 in wastewater that are equal or higher than they were back in January, which means we have a lot of COVID in the area, even if we aren’t reporting cases.”

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