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 ...

“At APHC, we conduct pooled surveillance testing, which means that we get large numbers of samples from asymptomatic individuals, and then we test those samples in groups, or “pools.” of up to 10 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The U.S. government is planning to use a strategy called pooled testing to boost the number of COVID-19 tests performed nationwide, The New York Times reported. Pooled testing works by collecting ...

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 testing was hailed early in the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to quickly and efficiently increase the number of people tested for the virus. But the approach has fallen short of its promise for a ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Mirimus, Inc., a leader in conducting high-volume, high-quality PCR testing, today announced the publication of a scientific paper, titled, "Pooled Surveillance ...

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, ...