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Armed With Swabs, Covid Hunters Stalk Their Prey
A survey of San Francisco’s Mission District gives this virus lab its best chance yet at understanding coronavirus.
Dressed for hunting.
Source: Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
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A series of dispatches from America in the age of Covid-19.
Word got out here that nasal swabs were the only thing standing between Northern California and a lot of coronavirus testing, and people with a talent for figuring out things began to figure things out. Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, flew a plane full of medical supplies from China to the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, and some functional though less-than-ideal nasal swabs were happily among them.