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Illinois State University students are back on campus for the spring semester, and a new COVID-19 testing program could be awaiting them. The university

  For COVID-19 Response Coordinator Michael Schultz, the first task was finding a company to take on testing the university. He said Shield Illinois was the first company he hoped would do the job.   “First we were going to go with Shield Illinois with the University of Illinois system and that was our plan,” Schultz said. “We gave them a deadline of when they needed to be FDA approved and they weren’t [approved by the deadline].”   Instead, he went with GENETEWORx, a testing company based out of Virginia. There were four categories that were most important t...