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CDC Mulls Sampling Wastewater from Planes to Track New COVID Variants as China Cases Rocket

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It comes as a U.K. health data firm estimates that China is seeing around 9,000 COVID deaths a day.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering testing wastewater samples from international aircraft to track COVID variants to protect the U.S. from new strains of the virus as fears grow about rising cases in China.

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