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One of the things that we're doing on
Grounds to minimize the spread of

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COVID-19 is pooled wastewater testing. Testing

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individual residence halls.
Sort of testing everybody in the

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building at once. One of the biggest challenges that we

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faced with COVID-19 is that people can spread the virus

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without having any symptoms
and wastewater surveillance is a great

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tool to detect some of those asymptomatic

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spreaders. We can detect SARS-CoV because it's shed

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in stool at pretty high rates especially early in

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infection. By capturing wastewater we can do a pooled

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sample of everybody that lives in the building

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that use the toilet that day and detect if there are new cases even

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before they have symptoms. This can provide an early warning system

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we can then take further steps to test individuals

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once we detect that there might be new
cases

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and ultimately limit the spread in the
residence halls.

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So the wastewater surveillance gives us
another tool

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to find cases early and minimize the
chance of further spread.