Jordan Peccia

  • Wastewater Can Reveal How Many of Us Have Gotten COVID-19

    Edward H. Kaplan Jordan Peccia

    New research based on data on COVID-19 RNA in sewage suggests that many more people had been infected with COVID-19 by May 2021 than official case counts indicated.

    Toilets in a public bathroom

  • Testing Sewage Can Provide an Early Warning of COVID-19 Outbreaks

    Edward H. Kaplan Jordan Peccia

    Earlier this year, a team of Yale researchers showed that the concentration of COVID-19 RNA in sewage mirrors the spread of the disease through a population. In a new study, they find that testing sewage can serve as an early indicator of an outbreak relative to hospitalizations.

    A transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles. Courtesy of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.