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in the other applications we talked about is, for example, large areas where there are nursing homes or assisted living facilities or even college campuses where we re very concerned about the rise and fall of the disease. you can do that simply by a sewage sample. and in the future, we really got interested because not only could you do that, but you could track things like hepatitis c outbreaks. you could detect antimicrobial resistance, frankenstein bugs, and even look if there s a spike in opioid use or methamphetamine or dangerous drugs in the community and surge public health. it s a very exciting moment and it s going to be the future. it s going to be an important tool in the future for public health. it does sound promising. let s talk about our current testing methods. cases are dropping significantly, thank goodness, but covid deaths are still high. averaging more than 2,400 new covid deaths every day here in the u.s. and the latest cdc data shows unvaccinated people are 9

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