Many schools around the U.S. are set to reopen soon, and with daily COVID-19 case counts and percent positive rates still high, a more effective public health measure to track cases of the virus is ...
This article was updated to include new information about LabCorp and Stanford Health Care’s pool testing efforts. As pandemic re-opening efforts show mixed success, across the U.S., there have been ...
The U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved testing pooled samples to help speed up the coronavirus detection process and conserve supplies. The way it works is that the samples from several ...
On Friday evening, the FDA reissued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for LabCorp's COVID-19 RE-PCR Test that now allows for testing among those without any symptoms of COVID-19. The agency also ...
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 ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday reissued an emergency use authorization to Quest Diagnostics to authorize a coronavirus test with pooled samples. In an FDA news release, ...
Testing pooled saliva samples twice weekly for SARS-CoV-2 on a residential college campus yielded a greater than 95 percent agreement with the gold standard for accuracy -- nasopharyngeal diagnostic ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic in the US continues to spread aggressively, testing remains somewhat dysfunctional and uncoordinated. This has made it challenging to test for severe acute respiratory ...
U.S. 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 ...
The Food and Drug Administration has given emergency approval to a new approach to coronavirus testing that combines test samples in batches instead of running them one by one, speeding up the process ...
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 ...