The story of Yale’s revolutionary wastewater monitoring system for COVID-19
Read the story of the intrepid Yale (CT, USA) researchers who set out to determine the best way to monitor for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater. Discover the “mindblowing” insights that the team uncovered, after designing completely new protocols and the path they took to scale their method from one city to an entire state.
Check out the article to get a look behind the curtain at how this team turned chaos into control and innovated to deliver state-wide COVID-19 monitoring under the toughest conditions. Including:
- The challenges in scaling they experienced
- How they dealt with shortages in vital experimental supplies
- The key turning points in their race to establish monitoring
- The practical impacts of their efforts in informing the public and policymakers alike
- The vital factor of their method that makes it applicable throughout universities in the USA