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   From: bleeding-rectums@cnn.com   
      
   It’s in the poop.   
      
   The University of Arizona is studying the feces in its sewer   
   system to test for COVID-19, and it might have already stopped a   
   possible outbreak.   
      
   Researchers found in May that studying human feces in sewer   
   systems worldwide could be the secret to curbing a second wave   
   of COVID-19 until widespread testing is available.   
      
   The university is preparing for a variety of periodic tests to   
   help curb the coronavirus — including one that involves   
   screening raw sewage from the dorms to see if it is found in   
   students’ poop.   
      
   School officials told The Washington Post that the technique has   
   already been in use during move-in week for its 5,000 students   
   and it might have already stopped a big outbreak on the campus   
   after a sewage sample came back positive from one dorm. All   
   students were quickly tested individually and two asymptomatic   
   students tested positive and were quickly quarantined.   
      
   “With this early detection, we jumped on it right away, tested   
   those youngsters, and got them the appropriate isolation where   
   they needed to be,” said Richard Carmona, a former US surgeon   
   general who is directing the school’s reentry task force,   
   according to the paper.   
      
   Carmona lauded the university’s system.   
      
   “You think about if we had missed it, if we had waited until   
   they became symptomatic and they stayed in that dorm for days or   
   a week, or the whole incubation period, how many other people   
   would have been infected?” he said.   
      
   “I really do think [the University of Arizona is] a good   
   demonstration of the technique and technology because all the   
   researchers working in this space internationally have come to   
   the conclusion that is a very good early warning system,” Kevin   
   Thomas, director of the University of Queensland’s Alliance for   
   Environmental Health Sciences told The Washington Post.   
      
   Since the outbreak, it has been found that COVID-19 can be   
   spread through “aerosolized feces,”  and farts, and has the   
   ability to waft through toilets into other apartments.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/university-of-arizona-is-screening-   
   for-covid-19-via-dorms-poop/   
      
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