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title: "Large-scale SwabSeq screening supported health-care workers and local college and university communities."
description: ""
url: "https://sina.bio/claim/large-scale-swabseq-screening-supported-health-care-workers-and-local-c-c64f99ff"
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# Large-scale SwabSeq screening supported health-care workers and local college and university communities.

## Content

Large-scale SwabSeq screening supported health-care workers and local college and university communities.

## Metadata

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## Connections (2)

### Massively scaled-up testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA via next-generation sequencing of pooled and barcoded nasal and saliva samples

- ID: `version:massively-scaled-up-testing-for-sars-cov-2-rna-via-next-generation-sequencing-of-pooled-and-barcoded-nasal-and-saliva-samples--2021-07-01-nature-biomedical-engineering`
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- Direction: `incoming`
- URL: <https://sina.bio/publication/massively-scaled-up-testing-for-sars-cov-2-rna-via-next-generation-sequ-8c628baf>

This publication contains this grounded claim.

> Following the success of this pilot phase, we began large-scale testing at the start of 2021 to support asymptomatic screening of health care workers at a major academic medical center as well as students and staff at local colleges and universities.

Source: 2021-07-01-nature-biomedical-engineering.pdf — <https://sina.bio/source/2021-07-01-nature-biomedical-engineering-pdf>

### Large-scale SwabSeq screening returned more than 80,000 results at about 10,000 tests per week with six laboratory perso

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- Direction: `incoming`
- URL: <https://sina.bio/result/large-scale-swabseq-screening-returned-more-than-80-000-results-at-abou-28cd90c1>

This claim supports this result.