Poop Patrol

Poop doesn't lie...
That’s why scientists are looking at sewers running under the world’s cities and towns for information they hope will help to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Sewers are treasure troves of information, containing genetic material of COVID-19 shed by those with the virus in their fecal matter — even if they are asymptomatic.
A recent study has also shown that viral levels in wastewater correlated with clinically diagnosed new COVID-19 cases and might reflect disease prevalence before it’s reported by doctors, raising hopes that the sewage could become an early warning system — a canary in a coal mine of sorts — for new outbreaks.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/search-coronavirus-early-warning-system-scientists-look-sewers-n1232858

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking bids from contractors that can carry out a plan to test up to 30% of the country’s wastewater to act as an “early warning system” for coronavirus outbreaks, according to a contract notice posted Thursday.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/25/hhs-wants-to-test-30percent-of-us-wastewater-for-the-coronavirus.html

The county has been participating in a pro bono program run by Biobot Analytics, a startup in Cambridge, Mass., that analyzes the virus’s concentration in sewage to estimate the number of people infected in a given area. The Biobot founders say that by gauging where infections are rising or falling over time, Meyer and other officials can make better decisions about public health. That could mean relaxing social distancing restrictions when conditions improve or preparing local hospitals for a surge of patients when coronavirus-in-sewage levels spike. “My job right now,” Meyer says, “is to get us out of this however we can.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-01/startup-biobot-analytics-is-tracing-coronavirus-through-poop

Biobot Analytics - MIT delta v Demo Day 2017
https://youtu.be/AMZI6xA9mdI

In their view, analyzing sewage is a good addition to existing surveillance initiatives, which predominantly operate on a national or regional level and generate data in relation to sick people. But the question is: Who will carry on the surveillance once their current project wraps up in 2023?
According to the two professors, one model is that the World Health Organization, WHO, and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC, take over the surveillance. These two actors have the mandate to head up such a programme.
Practically, this could be done once a year through the countries of the world collecting a few liters of sewage and sending them for analysis in a central location, such as e.g., the WHO Collaborating Centre on Antimicrobial Resistance. As more countries get the equipment and expertise to carry out part or all of the analysis, the responsibility for this part of the surveillance can be passed on to each country.
The work to create a global surveillance system for antimicrobial resistance is carried out with funds from the Novo Nordisk Foundation in a six-year long project. Through its involvement with the project, the institute also helps to support the UN's Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all. Read more on the project's website: Global Surveillance.
https://www.healthcarehygienemagazine.com/who-will-lead-the-global-surveillance-of-antimicrobial-resistance-via-sewage/

https://www.thebinarydissident.com/the-cdc-wants-to-mass-surveillance-on-your-poop-to-track-you-for-the-coronavirus-plandemic/

Global Sewage Surveillance Project, Technical University of Denmark
https://youtu.be/Cp_B5ddbT40