Sampling surfaces for COVID-19 at public health laboratories
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Surface sampling for SARS-CoV-2 RNA has shown promise to detect the exposure of environments to infected individuals shedding the virus who would not otherwise be detected. Now a new study, published in mSystems shows that the methodology used to detect COVID-19 in nasal swabs at public health clinics, viral transport medium (VTM)/PerkinElmer pipeline, can be used to detect COVID-19 on surfaces in indoor settings such as schools.
