The University of Notre Dame is shifting all undergraduates to remote learning for the next two weeks as it monitors a spike in Covid-19 cases, closing public spaces and putting restrictions on residence halls
From CNN's Jen Christensen
The new National Wastewater Surveillance System will help local public health leaders better understand the extent of the spread of the pandemic in their communities, the CDC said in an update on its website Monday. About 80% of the US is on some kind of municipal sewer system, the CDC said. With delays in testing and limited contact tracing, this would be a good complement to those methods and may give a good big picture of how widespread the disease is. Depending on how frequently the wastewater is tested, sewage can be a leading indicator of changes in the burden of the disease in the community, the CDC said.
This method does have some limitations. It cannot capture information from septic systems. That means it would miss data from more than 60 million people who rely on septic.
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