[HN Gopher] Amount of Covid found in the wastewater in Boston
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       Amount of Covid found in the wastewater in Boston
        
       Author : simonebrunozzi
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2021-12-06 21:50 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.mwra.com)
        
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       | glial wrote:
       | Similar work in MN shows that wastewater rates are a leading
       | indicator of positive tests:
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       | https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/...
        
       | epakai wrote:
       | https://biobot.io/biobots-wastewater-monitoring-the-omicron-...
       | indicates they use PCR. How does PCR testing return a
       | quantitative result? I thought the purpose was to amplify
       | (reproduce) proteins to enable detection, and this precludes
       | finding original concentrations.
        
       | a45a33s wrote:
       | its unfortunate that we'll never know what this data looked like
       | in 2019 or before
        
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