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The Biden administration intends to distribute an additional 500 million at-home rapid COVID tests starting in January.

While most students are aware of Penn State’s walk-up and randomized coronavirus testing, there’s other testing strategies happening beneath the surface of campus. Wastewater testing for the coronavirus has been part of Penn State’s layered testing strategy since before the 2020-21 school year. Starting in July 2020, a team of university professors and experts began sampling wastewater from both on-campus and off-campus areas in State College, according to Heather Preisendanz, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering. The team of researchers got its start ...

The team created two different smell tests and will analyze which one is more effective in predicting a positive COVID-19 diagnosis. The team hopes to develop an inexpensive, at-home test that can be used as a "warning sign of a community outbreak in time to thwart it," according to the release. The first test asks the user to identify odors such as smoke, strawberry, chocolate and onions, while the second works to reveal the users sensitivity to different concentrations of the same odor.  While loss of smell isn't present in all positive cases, studies show that 50% to 70% of people with co...

Covid-19 Dec 29, 2020 02:18 PM By The Conversation Coffee has become a popular part of DIY sniff tests. waferboard / Flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0 Smell loss – called anosmia – is a common symptom of COVID-19. For the past nine months, the two of us – a sensory scientist and an infectious disease epidemiologist – have applied our respective expertise to develop smell-based screening and testing programs as part of a response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. In early October, one of our graduate students shared the story of her mom and her daily coffee routine. It illustrate...