Identification of a rare SARS-CoV-2 variant in wastewater
Wastewater-based epidemiology is a method of monitoring community health with a minimal amount of direct human sample collection.  Sewers contain fecal and other waste inputs from large numbers of people deposited into what is presumed to be well-mixed sewage in which information about the health of individual people is assumed to be technically inaccessible. This study report identification of a rare SARS-CoV-2 variant in wastewater.