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The University of Akron is underway with its COVID-19 wastewater monitoring project, where a team collects wastewater samples from on-campus facilties, attempting to measure copies of a gene from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Another steep increase in coronavirus cases could be coming for Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.

Most people don’t want to think about their waste after it’s flushed down the toilet, but researchers can actually use waste samples to test for COVID-19. The Ohio Department of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency are partnering to test sewage and wastewater for the presence of coronavirus genetic material, ribonucleic acid (RNA) fragments, in feces in several Ohio cities including Cleveland.