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Want to Test More People for Covid-19? Look At the Sewage

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By Aparna Keshaviah, Miranda Margetts
| Route Fifty Verified
By Aparna Keshaviah, Sc.M. and Miranda Margetts, Ph.D. Connecting state and local government leaders There are two key challenges facing public health officials dealing with the coronavirus: a shortage of test kits and the fact that as many as 20% of people with Covid-19 could be asymptomatic. These two problems demand a new approach to testing—one that shifts from testing individuals to testing populations. Sewage surveillance serves this precise need.
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Using wastewater-based epidemiology with local indicators of opioid and illicit drug use to overcome data gaps in Montana

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By Miranda Margetts, Aparna Keshaviah, Xindi C. Hu, Victoria Troeger
| medRxiv
Abstract Opioid misuse takes an enormous toll on the health and economy of the U.S., costing 130 lives per day, and an estimated 157 billion dollars per year. Mitigating the epidemic requires better information on the mix of drugs being used in a community and when and where drug use concentrates.
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