As COVID emergency ends, surveillance shifts to the sewers

People who are infected with the coronavirus shed the pathogen in their stool, whether or not they take a COVID test or seek medical care, enabling officials to track levels of the virus in communities over time and to watch for the emergence of new variants.

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