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WGBH reporter Daniel Ackerman spotlights how MIT startup BioBot Analytics, along with researchers from MIT and other institutions, are sampling wastewater to try to gain a better understanding of the prevalence of Covid-19 in specific communities. Ackerman notes that “Biobot’s sewage sampling could help them craft guidelines for public health protections like social distancing.”