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How we track COVID-19 (and other weird stuff) in sewage

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    JXM
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    As soon as I saw this video show up in my YouTube subscriptions, a light bulb went off in my head. Of course there's tons we can learn from the contents of our sewage. It's something that had...

    As soon as I saw this video show up in my YouTube subscriptions, a light bulb went off in my head. Of course there's tons we can learn from the contents of our sewage. It's something that had never occurred to me.

    It's fascinating that they could potentially test the concentration of illegal drugs in neighborhoods via the sewage. Imagine using data from that to target drug outreach programs to make intervention programs more effective.

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      AugustusFerdinand
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      Which would be great. Won't happen of course. It'll be used to increase police presence instead to boost prison populations, because that's the timeline we live in.

      Imagine using data from that to target drug outreach programs to make intervention programs more effective.

      Which would be great.
      Won't happen of course. It'll be used to increase police presence instead to boost prison populations, because that's the timeline we live in.

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      1. JXM
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        Potentially, yes. I am lucky enough to live near one of the biggest universities in the U.S., so I did some research and they actually do have scientists that track the types of things that show...

        Potentially, yes.

        I am lucky enough to live near one of the biggest universities in the U.S., so I did some research and they actually do have scientists that track the types of things that show up in neighborhood sewage and share that information with the local health department.

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