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Coronapod: detecting COVID variants in sewage

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The New Way to Get More Genomic Sequencing Data From Waste Water

Researchers in california have been tracking waste water effluent, primarily at the university of california san diego campus. And they've developed two specific techniques that have allowed them to look at sewage data in much more detail. They could detect delta and alpha up to two weeks before it was detected in clinical samples. That gives you a two weeks head start if you are trying to make public health decisions.

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