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What if your mask could tell you have COVID? Aurora school kids are helping scientists figure out how.

Posted by DSST Public Schools on 02/03/22

Gloved researchers from the Colorado School of Public Health are set up in the corner of the cafeteria at Aurora Science & Technology Middle School collecting nasal swabs and face masks with the power to detect the coronavirus. The middle school adjacent to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is part of a dual-purpose surveillance and research study that could create new protocols for future waves of the coronavirus pandemic or even future pandemics. 

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