Ryan Newton and Sandra McLellan Photo credit: Troye Fox/UWM Photo Service

Susan Bence interviews Sandra McLellan for WUWM 89.7 Milwaukee NPR – “Because we’ve done sewage surveillance for bacteria for so long, when we started hearing reports that it might be in sewage, that was the first thing that came to mind — of course, we should be sampling sewage,” McLellan says.

The lab is working towards setting up a state wide effort to look for signs of COVID-19 in wastewater samples from treatment plants around Wisconsin. Read or listen to the interview.