Carroll College students will be able to get COVID-19 tests with results in 24 hours through a new partnership between the school and Shodair Children s Hospital.Â
According to Carroll President John Cech, the college and Shodair started having conversations during the fall semester about developing a partnership. With its medical genetics expertise, infrastructure and facilities, Shodair was approved to use the SalivaDirect method for testing that was developed by the Yale Public School of Health. According to both Cech and Corbin Schwanke, chief administrative officer for genetics at Shodair, this method is equally as reliable, and less expensive, than tradition nasal swab tests.