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Published: 2/2/2021 3:46:07 PM
For the last half-year of COVID-watching, we have been fixated on the number of cases and more recently on the number of vaccinations, but you may recall that when it began what we really cared about was the number of tests.
And we still care about that, even if the topic has fallen off our radar. Widespread and continuous testing is vital or we won’t know what’s happening – for example, we won’t know how well vaccines are working.
So I was interested to hear of an MIT startup founded by a physician that makes it easier to do group testing for COVID-19, often called pool testing, via saliva rather than nasal swabs. It seems like it could be a quick and relatively easy way to spot outbreaks.
COVID tracker: Widespread pool testing via saliva could be an important tool in controlling the pandemic
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Published: 1/31/2021 4:26:15 PM
For the last half-year of COVID-watching, we have been fixated on the number of cases and more recently on the number of vaccinations, but you may recall that when it began what we really cared about was the number of tests.
And we still care about that, even if the topic has fallen off our radar. Widespread and continuous testing is vital or we won’t know what’s happening – for example, we won’t know how well vaccines are working.