The strategic way UConn tracked COVID back to individual dorms - and saved money
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Kendra Maas, a facility scientist at the University of Connecticut’s Microbial Analysis, Resources and Services laboratory.Peter Morenus / University of Connecticut
STORRS — The University of Connecticut’s tracking of the COVID-19 virus by monitoring wastewater is not only catching positive cases sooner, it is a model that others are now trying to copy.
“We have been contacted by a few other universities to help them implement this strategy for their campuses,” said Rachel O’Neill, director of the UConn Institute for System Genomics during a Wednesday meeting of UConn Board of Trustees meeting.