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The good news: Philadelphia’s sewage can be used to find the first signs of a COVID-19 wave. The wastewater testing could, which could prompt the health department to sound an alarm.Testing wastewater for COVID
can detect case increases days before they are identified through public reporting of PCR and antigen tests , especially since many cases are now unreported because people are either testing at home or not at all. The city just started releasing information from the program, but the turnaround time is still slow because the Philadelphia Department of Public Health sends samples to Michigan State University for testing.
Lengthy quality control tests and the time it takes to ship samples contribute to delays of at least three or four days, and sometimes weeks, for reliable results. Also, it’s not uncommon for shipments to get lost in the mail.
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