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> Of course, all the testing agencies are collecting DNA. The records will be somewhere. Sorry buddy, you obviously have no idea how expensive it would be eith
by exhilaration 5y ago
> Of course, all the testing agencies are collecting DNA. The records will be somewhere.
Sorry buddy, you obviously have no idea how expensive it would be either sequence the DNA coming back with millions of covid tests OR store millions of swabs in conditions to preserve said DNA, for future sequencing. There's absolutely no way "all the testing agencies are collecting DNA".
- special_garbage 5y agoI don’t know about ‘all the agencies collecting DNA’, but they already should have freezers for storing samples, and sequencing is not the only way of obtaining genetic data. Microarrays are super cheap if ordered in bulk and have great coverage. Though even with sequencing they might make a profit depending on how much they are selling the data for …
- rob_c 5y agoChances are that given the cost quite a few are simply doing a basic sequence themselves (not a full strand) and selling on the data from this, which, whilst it sounds harmless is horribly unethical