STAT

Safer reopening will require millions more Covid-19 tests per day. One solution: ‘pool testing’

If the country wants to crank up its Covid-19 testing capacity into the millions — the range that could be required for safer reopenings of businesses and universities — experts say it’s time to ramp ...
CNN

Here’s what pooled testing is and how it can be used for the coronavirus

US health officials are increasingly proposing pooled testing – mixing several people’s biological samples and examining them in a single test – to drastically boost the country’s capacity to identify ...
The Washington Post

What is pool testing and how does it work?

Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Thursday in an interview with The Washington Post that health officials are having “intense discussions” ...
Men's Health

How the New Coronavirus Testing Strategy Called 'Pooling' Might Work

Testing has been a hot issue around COVID-19, and to stop the spread, experts are looking into a new way of testing that could safe time, effort and supplies. It’s a method called “pool testing,” or ...
The Boston Globe

Pool coronavirus testing is launching in more than 900 Massachusetts schools. Here’s how it works

In the coming weeks, nearly 300,000 students across Massachusetts will be tested weekly for the coronavirus as part of a widespread pool testing program launching at 952 schools. Fewer than 100 ...