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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (KVEO) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reissued an emergency use authorization for COVID-19 testing using pooled samples on Saturday. The testing will allow for up to ...

WASHINGTON -- The nation's top health officials are banking on a new approach to dramatically boost U.S. screening for the coronavirus: combining test samples in batches instead of running them one by ...

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, ...

In a paper published in Emerging Infectious Diseases this month, Yale researchers presented their study supporting the expansion of SARS-CoV-2 testing capacity by pooling saliva samples. Led by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HARLINGEN, Texas (KVEO) — The U.S. Food and ...

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 ...