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UpdatedWed, Apr 7, 2021 at 9:05 pm CT Replies(28) SafeGuard Surveillance owner Ed Campbell wants to know what's driving Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration to block school districts from being reimbursed through federal COVID-19 relief funding for using his company's coronavirus surveillance testing. (Provided by SafeGuard Surveillance) CHICAGO — This story about coronavirus saliva tests might make you mad enough to spit. It boils down to this question: Is Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration trying to rig the market for coronavirus testing in public schools to favor University of Illinois' ...

A lab at HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur was among the first in the Shield Illinois network to become operational.

University of Illinois wins FDA approval for saliva COVID-19 test The University of Illinois System received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday for its saliva-based COVID-19 test, as the statewide seven-day rolling positivity rate reached 2.4 percent. The FDA approval allows for the covidSHIELD test to expand beyond the U of I System. The saliva-based COVID-19 test has been administered more than 1.5 million times at universities in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield since it launched in 2020, according to a news release. Gov. J.B. Pritzker...

Testing program helps Illinois College get back on the gridiron Dennis Mathes, dmathes@myjournalcourier.com FacebookTwitterEmail Thanks to a COVID-19 test developed by the University of Illinois, sports teams at Illinois College have returned to play. IC has partnered with the SHIELD Illinois testing program, a screening testing program and infrastructure that deploys the U of I’s innovative saliva test across the state. Results are fast and accurate. Illinois College students have been taking the test once a week since they returned to class January 20. Student-athletes are tested as many...

Updated 2/19/2021 8:27 PM While other Northwest suburban school districts have returned to full-time in-person learning, Wheeling Township Elementary District 21 officials said this week they can't do that -- so long as they continue adhering to a 6-foot social distancing standard in classrooms, amid other logistical challenges. But they said the forthcoming implementation of a districtwide saliva COVID-19 testing program and positive trends in the local virus rate bode well for getting more students back to school for longer periods.   "Particularly as it relates to the elementary (schools)...