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Development comes as sources say new makeshift hospital to be built on a ‘scalable plan’ that allows for capacity to be increased if the outbreak gets out of hand.
Authorities have added more hospital beds, handed out rapid test kits and will ramp up testing capacity to 200,000 per day.
Cool, and really worrying. spring of last year, spring of 2020, early on in the pandemic, we didn't have enough covid testing to track the virus. researchers from a biotech start-up in massachusetts. tried to fill up the surveillance gaffe on covid with wastewater. literally, with the water we flush down the toilet. it sounds super gross but it totally works. they learned that they really can carefully test sewage samples. test wastewater to find traces of covid infection. and you can tell who individually is infected in this way. but you can, reliably, find out how much covid is circulating i...
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Have in the lab coming through is delta. >> reporter: in the lab, scientists take a covid positive sample and look for what is known as an s-dropout, meaning the virus's spike protein is so mutated that it can't be detected. that tells them they could be dealing with a variant such as omicron. how likely is it that you are going to find it >> oh, we will find it eventually it is just a matter of how soon. >> reporter: here the virus hunting starts at the sewer for months this team has been collecting and sequencing sewage samples from uc san diego and elementary schools across the city it is a...