4 Min Read
Published on: 02-09-2021
Public health officials have long touted widespread testing as one of the best ways to control the COVID-19 pandemic and save lives. In keeping with this guidance, La Sierra University in Riverside, California, United States, is bolstering its disease detection efforts with the rollout of new rapid-test equipment.
The university’s Student Wellness Services department, on January 13, 2021, deployed a rapid point-of-care PCR Cepheid GeneExpert Express molecular testing system. It will function in conjunction with a saliva-based screening process developed in the summer of 2020 by virologist Arturo Diaz. He studies positive-strand RNA viruses, of which the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a member. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes the illness named COVID-19.