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Popular Mechanics reporter Courtney Linder writes that MIT startup Biobot has launched a new program to test community sewers as a way to help track the spread of Covid-19. "We are establishing protocols to test sewage for SARS-CoV-2,” explains Biobot. “If successful, this data will give communities a dynamic map of the virus as it spreads to new places.”