US health officials are increasingly proposing pooled testing -- mixing several people's biological samples and examining them in a single test -- to drastically boost the country's capacity to ...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has affected 188 countries across all continents. The rapid spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has meant that both healthcare ...

Tufts University is switching to a pooled COVID-19 testing procedure for the 2021–22 academic year; pooled testing processes up to 10 samples at once, performing the same polymerase chain reaction ...

As millions of K-12 students return to in-person learning, school districts across the country have looked to pooled testing as a cost-effective means of monitoring the deadly virus. The method – ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Combining specimens from several low-risk inpatients in a single test for SARS-CoV-2 infection ...

Medford Public Schools transitioned to a pooled testing program for COVID-19 surveillance for their students and faculty on Feb. 4. Tufts University helped to implement the program. Toni Wray, ...

MANILA, Philippines — After pioneering successive COVID-19 testing innovations in the country such as the research on pooled swab testing and ongoing research on saliva-based testing and similar ...

The process is meant to limit the spread of a potential outbreak while minimizing the costs of the frequent large-scale testing needed to keep the disease in check. Workers administer Covid-19 tests ...