We can use sewage to track the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria Wastewater surveillance helped us track covid.This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter.This week, a sore throat and bunged-up nose led me to break out my dusty old box of covid tests.But this week I’ve been thinking about how tools designed to help us track the virus that causes covid could help us prepare for the next one: the spread of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.For now, the revision states that “it is necessary to introduce a monitoring obligation for the presence of AMR in urban wastewaters to further develop our understanding and potentially take adequate action in the future.” There are a few ways this information might be used."