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New York: Marc Johnson saw trouble in the water. Johnson, a virus expert at the University of Missouri, had spent much of 2020 studying sewage, collecting wastewater from all over the state and analysing it for fragments of the coronavirus. People with COVID-19 shed the virus in their stool, and as the coronavirus spread throughout Missouri, more and more of it began to appear in the state’s wastewater. In January, Johnson spotted something new in his water samples: traces of B.1.1.7, a more ...

From the Wastewater Drain, Solid Pandemic Data The coronavirus could turn sewage surveillance into a mainstream public health practice. Marc Johnson, a virologist at the University of Missouri, examining leftover RNA from samples of wastewater collected by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.Credit...Michael B. Thomas for The New York Times By Emily Anthes Marc Johnson saw trouble in the water. Dr. Johnson, a virologist at the University of Missouri, had spent much of 2020 studying sew...