This article was updated to include new information about LabCorp and Stanford Health Care’s pool testing efforts. As pandemic re-opening efforts show mixed success, across the U.S., there have been ...
Early one Thursday morning, nurses gather outside Morningside Community School in Pittsfield, don gowns and pull a mobile COVID-19 testing lab out of white boxes. Students wait expectantly. Their ...
The Food and Drug Administration has given emergency approval to a new approach to coronavirus testing that combines test samples in batches instead of running them one by one, speeding up the process ...
Associate Director, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics, University of Southern California Darius Lakdawalla owns shares in ...
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 identify ...
Federal health officials are hoping to stretch the supplies used to test for the coronavirus by combining samples from a number of people and running a single test. Chinese health officials used that ...
We want – no, need – schools to remain open full-time this year. After everything we’ve been through, the last thing any parent wants (myself included) is a COVID-19 outbreak forcing schools to scale ...