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Small California Town Hopes Testing Will Show How Coronavirus Is Spread

Bolinas is the first community to try to test all of its residents, regardless of symptoms, to help researchers understand how the virus spreads and how antibodies against it are built.

A small town in northern California will become the first in the nation to try to test everyone for the Coronavirus, regardless of symptoms, in an effort to better understand how the virus spreads and how antibodies against the disease are built.

Researchers at the University of California, in unincorporated Bolinas, home to some 1,600 people, started Monday.

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