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Scientists Are Racing to Get Us Faster, Simpler Coronavirus Tests

Rapid and at-home tests could give results in minutes rather than days

Emily Mullin
Published in
11 min readApr 15, 2020

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DDr. John Tomaszewski has been working 16-hour days since the new coronavirus hit Buffalo, New York in mid-March. Though it’s a six-hour drive from the pandemic’s epicenter in New York City, Buffalo and the surrounding county has…

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Emily Mullin
OneZero

Former staff writer at Medium, where I covered biotech, genetics, and Covid-19 for OneZero, Future Human, Elemental, and the Coronavirus Blog.