Student Volunteers Are Essential to Rutgers' COVID-19 Testing Strategy
Student Volunteers Are Essential to Rutgers’ COVID-19 Testing Strategy The Rutgers Global Health Institute Student Council initiated a volunteer effort to help the university execute its COVID-19 testing strategy. The university offers SARS-CoV-2 PCR saliva testing (for the active virus that leads to COVID-19) to employees and students who are working and learning on campus. So far, nearly 25,000 people have been tested, many of them multiple times. In order to supply the university’s testing locations with enough testing materials to meet the ongoing need, the test kits are being assembl...