From the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, the

Jakar Armstrong and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show.

Environmental engineer Smirky Cartikein showed us how robots placed near over 300 student

dorms and research buildings suck off sewer samples looking for early evidence someone

might be infected with the virus.

And if there's a positive, what happens?

If there's a positive and they will send targeted notices to your building, the wastewater

has been positive, and please go get tested.

That's from 60 minutes last night.

Good work if you can get it.

Getting giant samples of the sewer water from your dorm there at the university.

But anyway, so then they can tell if somebody in the dorm has it.

Right.

Yeah.

And then they don't waste the money on having everybody tested all the time.

They figure out, okay, somebody in the storm has it.

You people go get tested.

I've been hearing about this technology for a year now.

I'm glad to see that the A, it's being done and be either using robots.

They're a little worried about the New York variant, which is its own.

You've heard the British, the South African, a couple others.

The New York variant is its own and New York's getting hit pretty hard with COVID cases right

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