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Wastewater monitoring to shift from Met Council to the UMN Medical School, MN health department

As of Sept. 1, the Metropolitan Council no longer will be testing samples for SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19. The testing will be handled by the University's Medical School and the Minnesota Department of Health Public Health Laboratory.

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Minnesota at forefront of COVID-19 variant surveillance

Public and private health labs sequence more COVID-19 samples in Minnesota than almost any other state.

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Scientists look to Twin Cities sewers to find COVID variants


Scientists look to Twin Cities sewers to find COVID variants
The hunt for new strains locally is piggybacking on long-running COVID wastewater surveillance. 
February 15, 2021 — 5:34am
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Some of the best evidence for detecting early signs of new COVID strains in Minnesota is being flushed right down the toilet.
But scientists at the Metropolitan Council and the University of Minnesota's Genomics Center have started work to detect new strains of COVID in the wastewater flowing into the Twin Cities' primary sewage treatment plant in St. Paul.
The project is an outgrowth of ongoing epidemiological work with Minnesota's wastewater. Genetic traces of the virus that causes COVID are detectable in wastewater, which is why researchers are analyzing it for early warnings about COVID hot spots.

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