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NEW YORK, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Mirimus, Inc., a leader in conducting high-volume, high-quality PCR testing, today announced a partnership with Eckerd College, a private, coeducational college of liberal arts and sciences in St. Petersburg, Fla., to enable weekly COVID-19 surveillance testing of faculty, staff and students using its pioneering SalivaClear COVID-19 pooled saliva testing platform. The SalivaClear platform consists of three key elements – saliva-based sampling, pooled testing and gold-standard PCR molecular diagnostics – that, when combined, enable frequent, high-quality, high-throughput, low-cost detection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Eckerd initiated its COVID-19 surveillance program in Fall 2020 and ramped up testing the week of January 4, 2021 in conjunction with the start of the Winter Term. Under the first phase of the Winter program, Eckerd began by testing 50% of its 1,800 stud