UA researchers use wastewater to detect COVID-19, effectively stopping an outbreak before it begins

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TUCSON - This Spring the University of Arizona’s Ian Pepper and his team started researching the presence of Coronavirus in wastewater and how it can show community spread. “If you look for the virus in the sewage, you’re really looking at a reflection of the total viral load that’s coming from the community in the sewage,” Pepper said when he spoke to News 4 Tucson in April.On Thursday, University of Arizona President Robe