Waste water testing will be one of NJIT's 'best tools' for being able to detect coronavirus before it spreads, a university official said.
The Cypress Hall students will be attending all of their courses virtually while under quarantine, Golden told NJ Advance Media. None of them had reported any COVID-19 symptoms, he added.
Students walk on campus at the University of South Carolina on September 3, 2020 in Columbia, South Carolina. The New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey, placed 300 of its students into quarantine on September 16 after sewage water testing found large amounts of COVID-19 in a campus dormitory.NJIT is not the only American university to use sewage water testing as a means to potentially detect coronavirus outbreaks before they spread widely on campus.
"What wastewater lets us do is test hundreds of people at one time with each sample. We can then go to people who might have produced a stool in that wastewater stream and test them individually, quickly and identify an infected person," Robert Schooley, an infectious disease specialist and distinguished professor of medicine at UCSD, toldUCSD officials found traces of COVID-19 in sewage water in early September, allowing them to conduct 647 coronavirus tests the following weekend.
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