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School districts to roll out COVID-19 saliva screenings Several suburban school districts are planning to roll out a saliva-based COVID-19 screening program in hopes of reducing the transmission of the virus among students and staff members. Unlike the tests administered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the surveillance testing adopted by districts such as Naperville Unit District 203 and Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 is not diagnostic but is used to detect high viral loads for early identification of potential COVID-19 cases. courtesy of the University of Illinois Naperville Unit District 203 is among the suburban school districts planning to roll out a COVID-19 saliva screening program administered through Safeguard Surveillance LLC. Here, samples go through a heat inactivation process after scanning to ensure they are safe to open and can be detected properly.