SynchronousOnlyOperation error when upgrading from python 3.6 to python 3.7 using django channels

I've been attempting to upgrade python from 3.6 to 3.7 for our Django & Django channels application. With that change, Django throws a SynchronousOnlyOperation anytime any HTTP request is made (even if it has nothing to do with websockets). My guess is that somehow the python upgrade has made the Django check more strict.

I believe that django channels is serving both the HTTP requests and websocket requests so it expects all code to be async compliant. How do I get Django channels runserver to run the wsgi app synchronously, while the channel consumers asynchronously.

# project/asgi.py
application = ProtocolTypeRouter({"http": get_asgi_application(), "websocket": routing})

# project/wsgi.py
application = get_wsgi_application()

Stacktrace: It's clear to me that the auth middleware that is running for a normal wsgi view is not async compliant, how can I get it to run in a sync environment?

ERROR    Internal Server Error: /a/api
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py", line 233, in _get_session
    return self._session_cache
AttributeError: 'SessionStore' object has no attribute '_session_cache'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 47, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "/___/___/___/___/apps/core/middleware.py", line 60, in __call__
    request.is_user_verified = request.user.is_verified()
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 240, in inner
    self._setup()
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 376, in _setup
    self._wrapped = self._setupfunc()
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django_otp/middleware.py", line 38, in _verify_user
    user.otp_device = None
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 270, in __setattr__
    self._setup()
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 376, in _setup
    self._wrapped = self._setupfunc()
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/middleware.py", line 24, in <lambda>
    request.user = SimpleLazyObject(lambda: get_user(request))
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/middleware.py", line 12, in get_user
    request._cached_user = auth.get_user(request)
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 174, in get_user
    user_id = _get_user_session_key(request)
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 58, in _get_user_session_key
    return get_user_model()._meta.pk.to_python(request.session[SESSION_KEY])
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py", line 65, in __getitem__
    return self._session[key]
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py", line 238, in _get_session
    self._session_cache = self.load()
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/sessions/backends/db.py", line 43, in load
    s = self._get_session_from_db()
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/sessions/backends/db.py", line 34, in _get_session_from_db
    expire_date__gt=timezone.now()
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/manager.py", line 85, in manager_method
    return getattr(self.get_queryset(), name)(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 425, in get
    num = len(clone)
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 269, in __len__
    self._fetch_all()
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 1303, in _fetch_all
    self._result_cache = list(self._iterable_class(self))
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 53, in __iter__
    results = compiler.execute_sql(chunked_fetch=self.chunked_fetch, chunk_size=self.chunk_size)
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 1154, in execute_sql
    cursor = self.connection.cursor()
  File "/___/___/.pyenv/versions/pd37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/asyncio.py", line 24, in inner
    raise SynchronousOnlyOperation(message)
django.core.exceptions.SynchronousOnlyOperation: You cannot call this from an async context - use a thread or sync_to_async.

Versions

Django==3.1.1
channels==3.0.2
channels-redis==3.2.0

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