Detecting COVID-19 on Campus: Can Wastewater Provide Early Warning Signs?
Wastewater may hold the key to discovering the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on Clarkson’s Potsdam Hill Campus — before anyone even suspects they are infected.
Under the direction of Shane Rogers, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, the university is conducting cutting-edge, wastewater-based epidemiology — in other words, analyzing sewage samples for trace amounts of the coronavirus.