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
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Although the number of Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 rises every day, testing remains a key component to the country’s public health effort to thwart the spread of the virus. Testing is particularly important as more childrenâwho are currently ineligible for a vaccineâreturn to school for in-person learning.
Today, Ginkgo Bioworks announced a collaboration with Quest Diagnostics to provide COVID-19 testing services for every Kâ12 student in the United States, every week. This announcement comes just one month after Ginkgo announced a partnership with Helix to provide testing to Kâ12 schools across the western United States.
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WASHINGTON, April 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Rockefeller Foundation announces a $1.49 million grant to the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area to expand access to rapid-result Covid-19 testing to support K-12 schools reopening in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Developed by scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, this innovative, but easy-to-implement saliva-based Covid-19 testing program, led by a coalition of Consortium universities, has been up and running in all 26 high schools in the Baltimore City Public Schools system since March 15.
The grant from The Rockefeller Foundation will support the Consortium testing program in Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) and DC Public Charter Schools. Initial results of the weekly asymptomatic testing program in use in City Schools have found a .95% test positivity rate – well below the 5.6% positivity rate in Baltimore City overall – while
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As millions of Americans get vaccinated for COVID-19, many of us are starting to hope those painful nose swab tests will soon be a thing of the past.
Alas, the future of COVID-19 testing is more complicated than “less testing,” especially as we head into a potential fourth surge of cases. Testing is still a valuable tool in our COVID-19 prevention toolkit, but the technologies and motivations behind it are shifting. We’ll also have to shift our understanding of test results and metrics. To interpret the test numbers on the news or your local public health department’s website, there are two patterns you should think about: who will be tested