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pegothejerk t1_itvcyu4 wrote

Reply to comment by Eliju in Many U.S. labs cannot test for Ebola strain behind Uganda's swelling outbreak by Avulpesvulpes

BSL4 labs, the labs that can safely contain samples from pathogens that are high risk, cost hundreds of millions of dollars each to build. There's not enough money to convert every lab into a site that can test and accept such samples.

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slash_networkboy t1_itvhp8v wrote

>hundreds of millions of dollars each to build

About $1200 per square foot to build for perspective. Nevermind operational costs of several hundred per square foot monthly.

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coondingee t1_itwemjw wrote

So we can build a million labs that are only 1 sq ft for relatively cheap and then we could have them in every major city.

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dat_GEM_lyf t1_itwhh99 wrote

> there’s not enough money to convert every lab into BSL4

Not with that attitude

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