Wastewater Helps Cities Detect Community Spread of COVID Variants Like Omicron | Newsweek

CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer commented on the recent data from the COVID-19 wastewater tracker.

“On the other side of the U.S., Boston officials have also been utilizing wastewater to track the spread of COVID-19. A report from Sunday indicated that traces of the virus were being detected at extremely high levels, matching the city’s record-high averages from January. ‘This is pretty worrisome,’ Davidson Hamer, an infectious disease specialist at Boston University, told the Boston Herald. ‘The wastewater data closely mirrors community transmission rates, and all the indicators are not good right now.’ ”

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