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Each week, more than 500 people make their way to Weyerhaeuser Hall on the Macalester College campus in St. Paul, where they swab the insides of their lower nostrils under medical supervision to get tested for COVID-19.
The students and employees, selected semi-randomly by a computer to provide nasal samples for COVID testing, have no symptoms of the disease and no reason to suspect they re infected.
And that s the point.
When COVID-19 case counts fall, doctors and public health officials say the importance of finding and isolating asymptomatic carriers will re-emerge as a top priority for ending the pandemic. An analysis published last month in JAMA Network Open estimated more than half of all COVID-19 transmission originates in people who don t know they are infected.
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.
The Martha s Vineyard Times
M.V. Bank gives school testing program a boost
James Anthony, CEO and president of Martha s Vineyard Savings Bank, said he s pleased to have the bank s charitable foundation play such a significant role in the school testing program. Geoffrey DeMeritt
Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools (MVPS) will soon be able to provide at-home COVID saliva testing for students and staff.
In what has been a long haul for school planners and health officials, the surveillance-pool testing plan from Mirimus Clinical Labs that was accepted by education officials in November has fully satisfied its funding requirements.
Through both public and private donations, the overall $462,150 price tag is significantly cheaper than the initial proposition to test all students and staff who enter school buildings.