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   Sewage-testing robots process wastewater faster to predict COVID-19   
   outbreaks sooner   
      
   By using a sewage-handling robot, our laboratory has been able to   
   detect coronavirus in wastewater 30 times faster than nonautomated   
   large-scale systems. This advance, published in the microbiology   
   journal mSystems, provides even more lead time to communities   
   monitoring their wastewater for early warning about local cases of   
   COVID-19.   
      
   When clinical studies emerged showing that people who test positive   
   for SARS-CoV-2 shed the virus in their stool, the sewer seemed like an   
   obvious place to look for it. Wastewater surveillance can be used at   
   the community level to see potential outbreak clusters before clinical   
   diagnosis, especially in areas where COVID-19 prevalence rates far   
   exceed testing rates.   
      
      
      
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