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 ...

Washington, D.C. – October 13, 2021 – Testing pooled saliva samples twice weekly for SARS-CoV-2 on a residential college campus yielded a greater than 95% agreement with the gold standard for accuracy ...

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 ...

Pooled sampling of COVID-19 swab specimens is now allowed under a reissued emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Quest Diagnostics SARS-CoV-2 rRT-PCR test, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...

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 ...

Tufts recently launched a pilot COVID-19 study intended to assist K-12 schools to reopen safely through a method known as “pooled” testing. The effort will determine whether the nasal swab samples, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken steps to make it easier to pool test samples for many molecular diagnostic tests for SAR-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The agency’s ...