Alexandria Boehm: Wastewater helps reveal COVID’s real reach
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I'm just wondering what causes, because it's kind of amazing that this fluid, which is literally waste, might not even survive. But obviously, you've already shown that you're reliably seeing their DNA or RNA. So, my question is, how quantitative is it and how interpretable are those numbers in terms of what's going on in the population? Well, I'm an engineer by training, so I'm very quantitative, and we have a measurement with errors associated with it, and we run 10 replicates. Yeah. And I think what you're referring to is variability. So, how do you discern true increases from just, like, stochastic variability in the concentrations?
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