NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. health officials including Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, have called for so-called pooled testing to diagnose COVID-19 in order to test ...

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 ...

PACIFIC GROVE — Pacific Grove Unified School District will soon launch a pooled COVID-19 testing program for its school sites in conjunction with the rapid antigen testing it already has available.

Pooled testing is a preventative measure that allows schools to trace very low levels of COVID-19 infection before the infectious stage. Parents appear split on pooled testing programs that started in ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, efficient testing for the coronavirus remains relevant as variants spread and vaccinations have been slow to ...

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 ...

Early one Thursday morning, nurses gather outside Morningside Community School in Pittsfield, don gowns and pull a mobile COVID-19 testing lab out of white boxes. Students wait expectantly. Their ...

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, ...

Enabling K-12 schools to reopen for in-person learning is a priority for many teachers, administrators, parents, communities, and governments. But health and safety–both for students and school ...