As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to severely affect public health and the global economy, developing ...

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, ...

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 – ...

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 ...

If students, teachers and staff could be tested, schools could open to uninfected people without the need for masks or social distancing. Rapid group or pooled testing, where samples from a few ...

Sep. 14—Most Maine school districts participating in the state's pooled COVID-19 testing program are still setting it up as the school year gets underway and cases are already forcing students into ...

Tufts recently launched a pilot COVID-19 study intended to assist K-12 schools to reopen safely through a method known as “pooled” testing. The effort will determine whether the nasal swab samples, ...