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Wastewater Covid testing

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Wastewater Covid testing
Wastewater Covid testing

Wastewater Covid testing could give health officials a better handle on how bad the coronavirus situation is in each community.

Are finding unique ways to discover covid-19 trends around the country.

Biobot analyzes data in wastewater to determine the spread of covid-19.

The company says the data can help health officials make decisions when responding to a health crisis.

Doctors say biobot's data is more useful for relative trends, opposed to pinpointing accuracy in each county.

The biobot is speaking of prevelance of the virus in the community, which is different from the number of sick people.

Sick people do present some outlet of health care.

It's obviously different from the more severe sick people that go to the hospital and the asymptomatic people that have not got tested.

He says biobot's testing is useful to determine a drug crisis in a

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