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3. It seems that they do:
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 12:38 PM
Apr 17

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By the end of 2020, several studies had shown that levels of coronavirus in public water systems could correlate with the number of COVID-19 cases in the community. For example, researchers at Stanford University in California found that viral levels in wastewater rose and fell with cases in the San Francisco Bay area3. The group that led the work has gone on to found the WastewaterSCAN project, which tests samples from nearly 200 sites across the United States (see ‘Peak transmission’).



Peak transmission: Chart showing levels of SARS-Cov2 in wastewater tests in California and Georgia peaking in December 2023.

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Interesting site, thanks for the link.
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