A college town in Oregon is embarking on a groundbreaking effort to measure the hidden spread of COVID-19 within the community.
WEDNESDAY, April 22, 2020 -- A college town in Oregon is embarking on a groundbreaking effort to measure the hidden spread of COVID-19 within the community, thanks to the local university.
The team hopes to have just under 4,000 samples by the end, enough to paint a statistically accurate picture of how widespread the COVID-19 virus has become in the town of 58,641, said OSU spokesman Steve Clark. One of the problems with tracking the spread of COVID-19 has been that many infected people don't have any symptoms, while others have symptoms so mild that their infection is missed, said Ben Dalziel, an assistant professor with the OSU College of Science.
The OSU team will receive aggregated results from the testing lab and report them for each week's testing, as well as a final report summing up all of the data for Corvallis, Clark said. The current test only can detect the active presence of live virus, but antibody testing can detect whether a person has had COVID-19 in the past.
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