Thomas Balcezak, chief clinical officer at Yale New Haven Health and Yale School of Medicine.

Thomas Balcezak, chief clinical officer at Yale New Haven Health and Yale School of Medicine.

Thomas Balcezak, chief clinical officer at Yale New Haven Health and Yale School of Medicine.

Researchers from Yale University and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station analyzed solid waste from the East Shore Water Pollution Abatement Facility between March 19 and May 1 and found the amount of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, correlated with testing totals and hospitalizations.

Jordan Peccia, professor of environmental engineering at the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a co-author of the paper, said the testing is cost effective and can be useful in tracking the spread of the virus.

“We would think of this as something that augments testing programs and public health measures already in place,” Peccia said?

Thomas Balcezak, chief clinical officer at Yale New Haven Health and Yale School of Medicine, said researchers have not heard of any cases in which COVID-19 been spread by stool

I do think it has implications for how we could look and survey across the country about what is the burden of coronavirus in our communities,” Balcezak said Wednesday during a weekly online press conference

The treatment plant, situated on the east side of New Haven Harbor, takes in sewage from New Haven, East Haven, Hamden and Woodbridge