{"id":30168,"date":"2020-04-28T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30168"},"modified":"2020-04-28T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T16:32:30","slug":"biobot-goes-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30168","title":{"rendered":"BioBot Goes There"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/health\/sewers-may-hold-better-evidence-on-true-spread-of-coronavirus\/6133525\/\">Testing people<\/a> may not be the best way to see how much coronavirus is in a community. Testing sewers may be better.<\/p>\n<p>New Castle County, Delaware is analyzing its sewers in a high-tech way to track the amount of coronavirus in the county.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis made by BioBot, a startup connected to MIT, estimates more than 15,000 COVID-19 infections as of April 15, 10 times what conventional tests confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>BioBot looks for traces of the virus in wastewater.<\/p>\n<p>The company was founded by female scientists at MIT.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>\"You can get tests from different substations. You can then say, 'OK, these are where our top three hotspots are, and we should focus our testing there,'\" he adds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing people may not be the best way to see how much coronavirus is in a community. Testing sewers may be better. New Castle County, Delaware is analyzing its sewers in a high-tech way to track the amount of coronavirus in the county. An analysis made by BioBot, a startup connected to MIT, estimates more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30169,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30168\/revisions\/30169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}