As the US continues to see a rise in the numbers of COVID-19 cases, the country's health officials are considering a new testing strategy to determine just how many people have been exposed to the ...
As school districts experience a mix of remote and hybrid learning — and intermittent shutdowns due to COVID-19 infections — a primary challenge for school leaders is how to keep students and staff ...
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A "split pool" strategy for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in multiple samples could generate results faster ...
With testing for Covid-19 going up in India, pool testing can turn out to be an effective way. In pool testing, throat swabs from two to five people are mixed together and tested in a single unit. All ...
Ask an epidemiologist what it would take to return to some version of normal as we wrestle with the novel coronavirus, and the answer usually involves doing a lot of testing — a vast amount of testing ...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, told the Washington Post that officials are talking about implementing a new strategy that tests groups of people together. It's ...
Testing has been a hot issue around COVID-19, and to stop the spread, experts are looking into a new way of testing that could safe time, effort and supplies. It’s a method called “pool testing,” or ...
On Monday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) issued an advisory to began Pool Testing as the number of positive COVID-19 cases in India is increasing rapidly. Currently, India has 9,756 ...