University Of Arizona Prevented Coronavirus Outbreak On Campus By Testing Wastewater

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Positive samples led to an entire dorm being tested for COVID-19.
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The University of Arizona discovered two students had the coronavirus with no symptoms and were able to stop an outbreak in its tracks because of wastewater testing.

University President Dr. Robert Robbins confirmed to local outlet KOLD News 13 that wastewater samples from the Likins Hall dorm in Tucson came back positive for COVID-19, prompting the school to test the 311 students and staff in that dorm. Of those tested, two were positive and have since been put in isolation. The school is also conducting contact tracing, Robbins said.

All 311 students and staff at the University of Arizona’s Likins Hall dorm were tested for the coronavirus after a wastewater sample came back positive.
Dr. Ian Pepper, an environmental science professor at the university and the director of its Water & Energy Sustainable Technology Center, told the outlet that his team has been sampling sewage from dorms, as it “can pick up a single positive case in a group of 10,000.”

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