DALLAS – With changing public health priorities and a shrinking willingness to take COVID-19 tests at a health care clinic, it could seem as if trying to get an accurate picture of local case counts is a futile exercise.
But public health experts say that collecting case data is critical to understanding community health needs, even if it requires reworking North Texas’ current virus tracking practices.
The missing piece in the COVID data puzzle may lie in Dallas’ poop – and the city need only look a few hours southeast to Houston for the model of how to turn sewage into a viral spread prevention tool.
