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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitchell Armentrout

New website tracks and shares COVID-19 levels in Illinois wastewater to help residents ‘make informed decisions’

The Discovery Partners Institute at the University of Illinois has worked with the city to identify COVID-19 in sewage. A new website now tracks that information at 75 facilities statewide. (Provided)

For most of the pandemic, public health officials have looked to sewer systems across Illinois to track COVID-19 levels in different communities — and now residents can take a look into that viral information pipeline themselves. 

A new website launched Tuesday by the University of Illinois’ Discovery Partners Institute and the Illinois Department of Public Health offers a glance at how widely the virus is circulating through measurements taken at 75 wastewater treatment facilities statewide. 

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