CIC Health : and Quest Diagnostics Collaborate to Help Schools, Camps Open Safely Nationwide
05/10/2021 | 09:08am EDT
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CIC Health and Quest Diagnostics (NYSE:DGX) today announced a collaboration that will help more schools safely return to in-person learning by greatly increasing COVID-19 testing logistics and lab capacity across the country. It comes at a pivotal moment as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) releases state funding to expand testing for K-8 public schools nationwide. The collaboration will also support the testing needs of camps and other summer programs.
CIC Health, one of the largest school-based testing services providers in the U.S., already facilitates COVID-19 pooled testing — a proven, low-cost way to test large populations — for over 80 school districts and more than 600 schools across 20 states. The company helps implement testing from soup to nuts with a model designed to minimize school-day disruption by enabling all sample collection in a matter of minutes. Results are generally returned the next day.