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Everyone (With COVID) Poops: Wastewater Testing Can Help Officials Detect COVID-19 Outbreaks and Variants—but Palm Springs Is the Only Valley City Using the Technology

by Kevin Fitzgerald February 18th, 2021February 18th, 2021

The city of Palm Springs is testing wastewater for COVID-19 and its variants—but the rest of the Coachella Valley is not. Why? It primarily comes down to cost.

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