As millions of K-12 students return to in-person learning, school districts across the country have looked to pooled testing as a cost-effective means of monitoring the deadly virus. The method – ...
Medford Public Schools transitioned to a pooled testing program for COVID-19 surveillance for their students and faculty on Feb. 4. Tufts University helped to implement the program. Toni Wray, ...
The announcement from New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics comes about a week after the company announced "soaring demand" for COVID-19 molecular testing was slowing turnaround time to a week or more ...
Tufts University is switching to a pooled COVID-19 testing procedure for the 2021–22 academic year; pooled testing processes up to 10 samples at once, performing the same polymerase chain reaction ...
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Combining specimens from several low-risk inpatients in a single test for SARS-CoV-2 infection ...
US health officials are increasingly proposing pooled testing – mixing several people’s biological samples and examining them in a single test – to drastically boost the country’s capacity to identify ...
SalivaDirect, a Yale-created protocol that allows for greater efficiency in COVID-19 testing, has received FDA emergency use authorization to be used for pooled COVID-19 virus testing of up to five ...
Combining samples for coronavirus testing, an approach once hailed by U.S. health officials, only works when the vast majority of tests are negative. By Katherine J. Wu Earlier this summer, Trump ...
Inspired by a mother’s question, the new method will be introduced across Israel this fall, just in time for flu season, and could be coming soon to the U.S. By David M. Halbfinger BEERSHEBA, Israel — ...