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The Christian Science Monitor
https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2021/0205/Crowdsourcing-COVID-19-How-data-driven-groups-speed-pandemic-response
Alex Salkever
February 8, 2021
In a mere five months, a modest, 1,200-square-foot "pop up" testing lab at the University of California, Berkeley, has been transformed into one of the country's only high-throughput facilities for measuring COVID-19 viruses in sewage water.  "When we test wastewater, we get information about a really large number of people with a very small number of samples, and we get information about asymptomatic infections," says Kara Nelson, who leads COVID-WEB and is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley. For more on this, see our press release at Berkeley News.
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