Published April 8, 2022
WKBW quoted Yinyin Ye, assistant professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, about UB’s expanded efforts to track the COVID-19 virus from wastewater samples across the region.
“The infected individuals — they're shedding those viral genes in the wastewater,” said Ye. “They're not infectious viruses, but they definitely give certain signals in the wastewater to tell us what's trending or infections going on in the community.”
Read the story here. The The Dunkirk Observer and Erie News Now also reported on UB's COVID-19 wastewater monitoring program.
